> A piece of advice I wish I could give my manager is don't be spooky.
Why not politely talk to your manager and let them know that this behaviour is not appropriate / productive?
Why not politely talk to your manager and let them know that this behaviour is not appropriate / productive?
If a manager doesn't understand the communicative basic that there is always multiple messages:
- the message they intended to send
- the message they actually sent
- the message as it was read by the receiving person
Any decent communicator will always think about how the message/language will be read by the receiver(s). That means if they are a decent communicator this should not happen unless they have a very bad day or something.
Management by default attracts people who think they cracked it all (lol). It's an ego trip for many and they are usually impossible to truly reason with.
Also, someone with antisocial anxieties like this probably would have difficulty with that kind of confrontation.