> If you are calling out your colleagues for [...] not the way you would do it work, you should try to rephrase into praise w/ direction. Is the following alte

> If you are calling out your colleagues for [...] not the way you would do it work, you should try to rephrase into praise w/ direction. Is the following alternative completely insane? Be more combative, but playful about it: > I don't like this code. Let's fight about it ;) > ... I feel like under a lot of circumstances that would be way more comfortable for me than trying to suss out whether someone was genuinely praising me, criticizing me, etc. Social ambiguity is more uncomfortable to me than disagreement or criticism. (To be clear, I'm not endorsing this as a general approach.)