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kleinbl00  ·  1170 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 13, 2021

It's not really an "interview question" sort of thing - it's like hiring a lawyer and then discovering that they have no notes on any of their cases for six months. You can't really say "so... when you meet with clients and discuss their cases, do you promise to record your discussions and findings?" because c'mon. It's implied? So when we looked at this yawning chasm of charts we went "...what's going on in your life girl?" and worked around it to the best of our abilities.

It is my practiced opinion that sociopaths are performatively better in the room than they are over the phone or email and that certain situations can get entirely out of hand when someone can charm you into not caring. We've been charmed for about eight weeks now because it's always easier to go along than to put your foot down and fix things (see: Jan 6) but things have gotten objective as late which I imagine she sees as punitive.

I'ma check that book out. Our DEI consultant recommended I read Radical Candor and halfway through I wrote him an email objecting that one of his guiding principles is an underlying justifying Sheryl Sandberg's sociopathy as genius. Should have been a warning sign.