# One way to tell if your coworkers don't like you: they take you up a mountain and leave you there

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**Created:** [August 27, 2024, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-way-to-tell-if-your-coworkers-dont-like-you-they-take-you-up-a-mountain-and-leave-you-there/1006337 "2024-08-27T22:44:29Z")
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### Author: ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-way-to-tell-if-your-coworkers-dont-like-you-they-take-you-up-a-mountain-and-leave-you-there/1006337/23 "2024-08-28T15:51:41Z")

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> [@wolfpup](#):
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> In all seriousness, I suspect that “picking up the trail markers” was in the spirit of cleaning up after yourself

Typically, the trail markers are piles of rocks called “carins”. They aren’t temporary things that a hiking group leaves behind like breadcrumbs. On a hike above treeline, there isn’t necessarily a well-worn path to follow. It’s often just walking across a bare surface. The carins are used to let hikers know the path to follow. But it can be easy to miss them. If this was a novice hiker or he just overlooked one of the carins, it would be easy to go off trail.

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