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“Welp, you broke production. Pack your things, you’re fired.” Ugh, when was this humour ever funny? I'm a manager, I like to joke around with my team. There's a
by te_chris 6y ago
“Welp, you broke production. Pack your things, you’re fired.” Ugh, when was this humour ever funny? I'm a manager, I like to joke around with my team. There's a lot of comedic ground to cover before you start joking about people being fired.
- huntsman 6y agoYou'd be surprised. I've seen a number of times where new managers used to just being one of the team don't realize that joking about performance, compensation or someone's job takes on a very different tone when they have some actual or perceived power over these things.
- jlokier 6y agoI agree, this is an easy mistake which arises from a history of "friendly" office banter. Especially if you're used to being playful with humour and words, and acting like mates humour at each others' expense. Jokes about performance and firing have a much bigger impact than the inexperienced manager realises. But I think it's not great when non-managing peers do it to each other either. Unless there are really well established relationships and a good track record at work, there's going to be some background thought, conscious or unconsciously adding a little stressor: "I wonder how much they really mean it" and "I wonder if my boss thinks like this too". A lot of people have imposter syndrome already. It doesn't take much to add a bit more.
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- anon98356 6y agoIt can be funny when coming from one IC to another IC. Which I think is the point of that sentence. Jokes that may have been funny and have hit home when you were co-workers suddenly have very different connotations now that you might actually have the power to fire someone.