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"Supportive Feedback Document."

It's like some cross between Kafka and newspeak.

I don't know how anyone could not see this as a pretty clear sign of a toxic workplace. There must be a reason they named it that way and you can deduce a lot from that. Nothing that speaks well for the company.

How a non-toxic company should've called it? "A terrible fuckup notice"?

That would still be far better than passive-aggressively suggesting that complaints are to be uttered in a supportive way.

I you are that dishonest in making a sign, you probably don't have a good and open culture to talk about errors or improvements and "supportive feedback" just screams that fact in you face. Could as put up a warning sign: "Please mind the vanity and ego of your superiors when handing in any complains".

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