it's fascinating how much people in general seem to think i should respect them just because they were promoted to an admin position
no, you've gotta build rapport and mend bridges and realize your job involves management if you're going to get me to care
what makes people think that I'll respond to yelling? a lot of us already mended that trauma response and these people just look, to borrow a term, cringe.
people keep fighting the wars of the past instead of noticing that the theatre has changed, and it's just so funny when you step away from it.
their ideal is people who don't speak up and do as their told, because they never realized that the people who told them their shit wasn't going to work needed the safety and respect to do it.
now everyone I know seems content just keeping their heads down while the businesses make the mistakes, no longer held back by the conscience of workers, tracing 6 month trends for 9 months, over and over
if you want to lead me, you'll have to lead. know everyone's strengths, combine them, shore up weaknesses, debug your people and buy space for them to think and absorb shocks with.
it's the basic unit of human society. coordination across people who make their own decisions. The thing that's allowed us to get as far as we have. Something that's been trained out of you.
why?
