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Keep it anodyne, pretty much always. You can tell your spouse what you really think. Or better yet, your dog.

• Someone1234 8y ago
  While I'd never condone being rude, combative, or unnecessarily offensive, I think there's a time and a place to make waves. And while the person doing so often personally suffers the consequences, it is a healthy signal to an organization that those opinions could be shared by others. If nobody ever heard anything counter to the group-think, the organization itself would very quickly become stuck by momentum.
  • jeklj 8y ago
    > If nobody ever heard anything counter to the group-think, the organization itself would very quickly become stuck by momentum. Indeed, that's a great reason not to fire people when they're honest. And yet, here we are. At least in SV tech companies, in my experience, people really get their feelings hurt over small amounts of honesty. More importantly, the conversations you'll have to have afterward and the way people will sit on it for months until it comes up in your review make it just not worth it.