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Wait until your manager is laid off and you're talking to them afterward. This has happened to me twice in my career and both times its like you're talking to
by nly 3y ago
Wait until your manager is laid off and you're talking to them afterward.
This has happened to me twice in my career and both times its like you're talking to a whole different person.
In my cynical opinion, being that different person is the number 1 trait companies look for when selecting managers
- ngrilly 3y agoHow different were they (your managers) before and after being laid off?
- bomewish 3y ago+1 super curious
- pi-e-sigma 3y agoBeing an asshole while in charge and then back to nice, empathic person once he doesn't have any power over other people any more
- ngrilly 3y agoSounds like a very bad manager.
- keepamovin 3y agoit's funney yeah. lack of empathy is correlated in psych studies with increase in power over others. people with less power need to be more empahtetic / in tune with other's feelings in order to get their needs met. makes sense. can realted from my childhood! :) haha
- rafabulsing 3y agoThis episode of Planet Money is a good demonstration of that: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/08/28/435583328/episode-647-hard-work-is-irrelevant https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/08/28/435583328/epis... In summary: Patty McCord helped create the company culture in Netflix not ever holding on to people, if your position becomes slightly redundant or your performance falters for a bit, you're out. She apparently called herself "the queen of the good goodbyes". She says that she does not like the word "fired", that people are just "moving on" and that this is good for everyone involved. At one point in the interview, she gleefully recounts admonishing an employee she let go for crying about about it. The twist being that she herself was eventually fired as well. The interview does not go very deep into this because "she doesn't like to talk about it", and just says that leaving Netflix was "terrible, painful and sad".
- kridsdale1 3y agoWhat a psycho
- johannes1234321 3y agoMind that being laid off also changes them. They are also human.
- keepamovin 3y agoNah, man: totally agree wif dat. But even that can express differently, there's a lot of boxes for that different person to fit into! I mean, is this impostor syndrome or is it something else?
- discordance 3y agoThe Stanford prison experiment in action
- sumtechguy 3y agoWas that ever replicated?
- kridsdale1 3y agoNo it’s conclusively been disproven many times.
- keepamovin 3y agoFor real? Where is that cited? Because SPE is still mentioned a lot. How is it disproven?