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Americans being into hierarchy is a bizarre opinion. Are you confusing it with asian countries?
by 121789 3y ago
Americans being into hierarchy is a bizarre opinion. Are you confusing it with asian countries?
- krab 3y agoSame experience here. See my reply to the sibling comment.
- pnathan 3y agoA lot of Americans, particularly the more traditional minded, really are into hierarchy.
- mdekkers 3y agoThe only time I have ever been “ordered” to do something was for an American middle manager (not in my line) in an American company. “Haha get fucked” wasn’t the answer he was expecting, but my non American manager told him the same thing when he went to demand I’d get fired.
- bigDinosaur 3y agoI mean, that'd probably get you fired even in a country that really does allow for a lot of informality with your bosses (e.g. Australia).
- auggierose 3y agoI think Anglo-Saxon countries are all pretty much the same in that respect. No fan of Suella Braverman, but she got fired not because of what she said, but because she publicly went against hierarchy, which seems to be a terrible offense. Which in the UK it probably is.
- mdekkers 3y agoWhere i’m from, if your manager literally states “you are ordered to do xyz” that manager will be fired. It’s not the fucking military.
- bigDinosaur 3y agoWere your quotation marks meant to indicate that was the literal language used? I interpreted it in the opposite way (as scare quotes), but would agree extremely authoritarian orders will produce interesting and counterproductive reactions.
- rovolo 3y agoJFYI, scare quotes are also indicating the it is "the literal language used". The quotes are added to say that you are quoting literally what other people/the culture uses, but that you disagree with how that term/phrase is used.
- bigDinosaur 3y agoI'm aware, but what I meant is the ironic usage - you can use scare quotes in an ironic way (i.e. you may be quoting someone or an expression or idiom but we do not know it is the boss being quoted verbatim).
- liquidpele 3y agoThey’re probably confusing hierarchy with our obsession with middle managers who fear it being discovered that they don’t actually do anything.
- hyggetrold 3y agoIt's not as bizarre as you might think. The United States is not a monoculture, different parts of the country are more hierarchical than others.
- confidantlake 3y agoBeing American and having worked in American companies we absolutely are. Not as much as Asian countries, but much more than European countries.