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I admire your empathy and that you evidently examined the situation versus reacted. Props to you.

• danso 11y ago
  Ditto. Empathy is important...I imagine that boss, if he's relatively young, has to deal with the pressure of seeming like an effective boss, and that includes setting some hard lines...because let's face it, the boss and employee can see eye-to-eye, but that understanding doesn't always communicate across all the other employees, leaving some resentful. It's not dysfunction, necessarily, it's just the nature and friction of having an understanding and an implicit agreement. And so having a hard-no-compromise rule is sometimes easier. And younger bosses do worry about not wanting to seem like a slacker millennial (to their bosses)
  • federico3 11y ago
    Age is not an excuse for being ineffective at your job.
    • JoeAltmaier 11y ago
      Sure it is! Otherwise how do any young people ever get started?
      • ionforce 11y ago
        You're conflating age with level of experience.