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I've encountered several people who tried to do this... all of them were not as smart as they thought they were. I got 3 of the four to stop by saying "after we fire you I'll just have [the two smartest people they know] spend a month on your system do you think they'll figure it out"... they were like "yeah you're right" and became a lot more productive... the 4th we had to let go and it took about a month.

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You must be a very popular manager at the office.

It depends. If someone is feint am asshole and tearing down the team, a “knock it off or else” approach is certainly a reasonable response, especially if done privately.

I'm not a manager, I'm a lead / pe. This is over 22 years that it's happened 4 times. 2 were at drinks and 2 were at mentoring sessions, all 4 were kinda struggling and looking for a safety net.

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