I think another aspect of it is the pressure to appear competent. No one wants to tell their boss that they don't have an f*ing clue what they're doing so they

I think another aspect of it is the pressure to appear competent. No one wants to tell their boss that they don't have an f*ing clue what they're doing so they internalize the anxiety. In reality I think a lot of people feel this way a lot of the time and it's not shared for some GameTheory-y coordination problem reasons