skipidarink

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   by skipidarink 4y ago

   I hear you on all of that, I'm just saying that leadership gets complicated. Sometimes the lie is better for all involved, especially the IC. You recognized this with your first instinct on how to communicate it. As far as the reward
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   by skipidarink 4y ago

   > Just tell my IC "I'm not sure why your work was invalidated. Let me look into it for you." And so you take your first step down the path.. "I'm not sure" is a lie here.
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   by skipidarink 4y ago

   Consider that you're advertising yourself as the type of person who absolutely must be lied to in order to maintain morale. I've been close to situations where the ICs did their absolute best and it was a total waste because of po
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   by skipidarink 4y ago

   Perhaps, I don't know, my biases and schadenfreude aren't that sophisticated.
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   by skipidarink 4y ago

   Of course we do (real people, not the media). Not defending snobbery or anything but SV costs NYC rent for someplace that's.. definitely not NYC. Lame-os who are primarily interested in the most-coveted jobs might be motivated by wha