What's strange about workplace culture challenges? It doesn't slam into your team like a freight train. Instead, it slips in subtly, such as an offhand remark during stand-up, someone quietly shouldering way more than they signed up for, or leadership making decisions that may yield short-term results but strain the team in the long term. At first, you think, "This is fine. We can handle this." But that's the thing about these patterns: they build up like compound interest, except in reverse.