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There's another strategy: Be known as the honest-but-could-be-more-tactful jerk-lite who will always give you a clear, no-nonsense answer right away. Spending
by airhead969 6y ago
There's another strategy:
Be known as the honest-but-could-be-more-tactful jerk-lite who will always give you a clear, no-nonsense answer right away. Spending too much time and effort managing other people's (stereotypically millennial and younger) touchy feelings is a waste of company time. Don't go out of your way to be a jerk, but it's a non-value-add activity to spend hours per day crafting perfect emails to coddle everyone else. It's a business, not a micro-aggression safe-space or a country club. Try to be a family but where denied requested aren't taken personally.
- Hackbraten 6y agoI somewhat disagree. Tone is very difficult to convey in written communication. A perfectly neutral email may come across as rude, or vice versa. Erring on the side of politeness helps avoid such misunderstandings. Spending hours to refine messages is certainly overdoing it. But if you write all your messages with zero safety padding, you’re only hurting your own career needlessly.
- nyx_ 6y agoI'm inclined to think that someone who needs hours of time just to write an email in which they don't sound like a big jerk is likely to be a fountain of workplace interpersonal problems. If spending a few seconds to be a little more tactful is difficult for someone, the problem is with them, not the "millennials" that need to be "coddled".