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> Had my 1-on-1 with her and she asked “Any feedback?”

Tangentially, there was a time when I believed if you had a great idea your boss would be delighted to hear about it. Sadly, that was a long time ago.

My current bosses are all the smartest people that they have ever met. Here I am not bragging, I only mention this to give credence to my argument: I have performance reviews that would knock you down they are so good; 400 points out of a possible 400 points on 3 out of 6 sections, with 347 ponts being my lowest score for an overall average of 370. That puts me in the uppermost category. Clearly I'm appreciated... Any idea I have is not. These folks only want yes men.

Recently I saw my direct supervisor watching the department director doing something that I know my supervisor knew was wrong--yet he never said a word. I did though. Incidentally my Supervisor was recently promoted by the Deptarment Director.

Personally, I can't Not say anything when I see people doing the wrong thing. For sure I try to be tactful, but there it is.

I'm glad things went your way!

Jesus Christ you couldn't pay me enough (or maybe you wouldn't want to) to live by point systems.

I dunno dude, you can make some pretty good money working under a bullshit FAANG point system ( levels.fyi )

This crazy points system doesn't sound like anything I've ever heard of at FAANG.

Facebook does not have a point system, and I'm fairly sure none of the others do.

> Jesus Christ you couldn't pay me enough (or maybe you wouldn't want to) to live by point systems.

I took the gig to get myself straight after a failed business venture. It took 5 long years but at last I'm ready to launch another venture.

Gotta do what you gotta do. C'est la vie!

>Personally, I can't Not say anything when I see people doing the wrong thing. For sure I try to be tactful, but there it is.

I've been paying a high cost for having urges like this for a long time.

I'm curious. How many people are like this? Is this the majority or the minority? I've had trusted friends tell me that I'm crazy and I'm in the minority.

I think it's the minority, I work on a floor with about 4 other people like that in a floor of 200 or so, so it's a small amount of people.

It's still the approach I take. If I think something isn't right, I'm going to call it out. Try and convince me I'm wrong! I won't be offended, it's the idea I'm attacking, not you personally.

I've tried to model different ways at giving the feedback/cc, I don't think it matters, most people tie their ego to their idea, a few do not.

// Tangentially, there was a time when I believed if you had a great idea your boss would be delighted to hear about it. Sadly, that was a long time ago.

How does one find good managers(or entrepreneurs) who are really open to great ideas and value them well(in money)?

I think one way is to have lateral movements always ready. Be prepared to leave when you find too strong opposing forces.

>Personally, I can't Not say anything when I see people doing the wrong thing. For sure I try to be tactful, but there it is.

I'm the exact same. In fact it's the primary reason I got into tech, because as an industry it's way more open to that style than others.

Any advice on capitalizing on that ability?

"Tangentially, there was a time when I believed if you had a great idea your boss would be delighted to hear about it. Sadly, that was a long time ago."

I think this is more a case of rose-colored glasses about the past. There has always been a wide variety of personality types who can/can't deal with criticism/perceived threats to their status as being above the people below them.

I think the OP meant when they were young and naive, rather than an actual time period.

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