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I think this is independent of culture. Being challenged by a person low on the hierarchy so openly does look untactful on your part.

• stephenr 11y ago
  I don't think you understand. Or if you do, we have very different ideas about what's important. He was my direct manager, but we were literally a team of two, working on a project together. He was unabashedly wrong - not slightly wrong, not a bit confused, not misinterpreted - just flat out wrong. When I told him, I didn't make a fuss, I didn't make a big deal, I just told him calmly "no, that's wrong, X because Y". Literally my only other option was to say nothing, and let the project waste time because of his incorrect assumptions/ideas.
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    • stephenr 11y ago
      It was some technical detail about browser cookies. I don't remember what. But it was hardly the height of computer science. Regardless of whether he considered what I said to be tactful or not - a 3 day silent treatment broken only by a contract representative is a ridiculous response. My real point though is that he (and a lot of people) are more concerned with appearances than with actual good results. This relates to the term I used in another HN thread - the Kumbaya Approach to project management.