I've been lucky to not have to work out in the world lately, and the work I'm doing now is service oriented and of free choice. But that doesn't mean that I'm not subjected to some negativity since DH and I own a business.
It is a rough world out there. You might see a post that Creamcheese and I posted about "meeting a real mean woman"

I think you will be seeing many people coming here to learn how to cope w/ negative people and learn to recognize the ones to ignore and the others to confront.
You will get stronger and you won't react to them as much and then they will have to change the way they act towards you. You'll learn that more on Lesson 14, at least that is the # of my CD. I listen to that one while I take a bath.

I have other CDs in my car CD player and use a another CD player in my kitchen. I switch them periodically. They all help.

P.