For me, it is really the circuitousness that people will go through to avoid saying anything that might be taken as damaging to somebody's feels. It's exhausti

For me, it is really the circuitousness that people will go through to avoid saying anything that might be taken as damaging to somebody's feels. It's exhausting, and confusing, and I wish people would just cut the shit and say what they mean. But my dad was ex-military, then a logging contractor, then a heavy equipment mechanic, and I grew up working with him. When there are firearms, chainsaws, bulldozers, or heavy objects dangling from cranes, you don't have the luxury of couching your criticism in weasel-words or crafting the compliment-criticism sandwich. If somebody is fucking up, you let them know in no uncertain terms, because somebody could get hurt.