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It is a real drag. It also feels.. important? I guess I know what kind of feedback you are talking about because you call it nannying, but I know I've gotten fe
by burnished 5y ago
It is a real drag. It also feels.. important? I guess I know what kind of feedback you are talking about because you call it nannying, but I know I've gotten feedback on how I come across, and it was unpleasant to hear, but after acting on it I noticed I got better results from social interactions. To be genuine, when I was younger there were people that I thought were cool that would do or fall into accents at times, so I tried doing it too. I was bluntly informed that it was 'not cute', which hurt, but frankly I'm grateful.
Conversely I've also been told stuff that boiled down to fitting a mold, working customer service or delivery and being told that tattoos weren't professional while consistently seeing doctors or other 'real' professionals with tattoos.
I feel like the dividing line kind of comes down to the difference between "this is how I personally interpret and feel about your actions/communication" and "this is what I suspect an imaginary other desires".
- kodah 5y agoIf it helps, this type of nannying conduct stopped when I went to engineering focused firms instead of product and traditional businesses. Why it happened at Apple eludes me, but I suspect that once an engineering firm grows to a certain size it's culture cannot be sustained homogeneously.