Our book club's fight over a character's choice led to some real honesty about bad managers

Tbh, arguing about the book made us admit how much our boss's bad calls mess with our project morale.

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Wait, it's not just the bad calls though, is it? That stuff happens. What really kills morale is when they never listen to why it was a bad call, or just act like it didn't happen. The silence after a mistake is way worse than the mistake itself.

rowan66620d ago

What gets me is how that silence trains everyone to sweep things under the rug... like if we don't talk about the error, it never happened. But then people get scared to even mention small problems before they blow up. So you end up with bigger messes because no one felt safe to speak up early. It's not just about feeling ignored, it's about building a whole system where mistakes go underground. And fixing that kind of culture... way harder than just owning up to one bad call.

val_henderson12d ago

You know, @derek_lewis is right about the silence after a mistake. But what's even worse is when that silence gets broken by them suddenly changing the rules for everyone else. They don't own their bad call, they just make a new policy that punishes the whole team for a problem they created. It makes you feel like you're being managed by someone's guilt.