Hiring McKinsey & Co as just another way for management to cut jobs is usually true?
follow this mantra: “An excuse is a claim, and a claim needs to be proven to be true.”
"Just don't believe people, lol."
ghoulish screed, through and through
There aren't enough complete sociopaths among the general population to run the inner workings of capitalism, so they have to be mass-produced.
“This new policy is going to triple my workload”
“Do you have proof for your claim?”
“Uh, I guess. I worked 160 hours this month and handled 100 cases, so a case takes me an average of 1.6 hours. This new policy adds about 3 hours of work per case.”
“How would you know how much work it will add when we haven’t implemented the policy yet?”
“Because I do this job every day so I know how it works.”
“All I’m hearing is excuses with no data. The policy will continue as planned.”
:very-intelligent:
This is satire right? This is what I would write to satirize a clueless manager.
"This is a really stupid and bad idea" - someone that is too insecure to accept change
Wow this reads like it was written by somebody who tried to implement a really fucking stupid idea so he could cut jobs and the people who actually do the job told that to him and then he tried to get them fired for it
i'm trying to find where this bozo even studied and all i get is nothing.
i know actual psychologists spread uber amounts of slop, but it's even worse when people that have no verifiable credentials in psychology have their neolib propaganda paraded around like it comes from a "psychologist"
I hate journalists so fucking much its unreal, all they do is read a fucking abstract, delibwrately miainterpret what's said, and then fucking poison everything with their misinformation
this literally reads like that "I treat my girlfriend like a dog because she is very stupid" post
This is union-busting shit.
For anyone who hasn’t done union organizing before, this is a tactic used in counter-innoculatuon. Union building and union busting both have tried and true playbooks and warning against what your opposition’s next play is is the cornerstone of a movement’s credibility. It really makes or breaks a push. So stuff like this is priming workers to dismiss union talking points and side with management in general.
Note that the title is a lie. The article isn’t a psychologist outlining phrases used by insecure people. It’s a “a leadership consultant who studies workplace psychology” outlining how people react when management pushes unpopular changes (“when they sense that change is coming”) and instructing people on how and why to ignore their concerns.
The phrases:
- “I don’t have time for this. My other priorities are more important.”
- “I’ve already tried this [or something similar], but it didn’t work.”
- “This is just another way for management to cut jobs.”
- “This is a stupid idea. Everything is working fine as it is.”
- “This might work for others, but it’s not for me.”
- “Can’t we think of something else? I’m not feeling this.”
- “It’s obvious that whoever came up with this idea is clueless about the complexity of my work.”
A few of these read to me like the person who complains about everything and is awful to work with. But most of these things are things I’ve heard my most competent coworkers say when management makes a bad call. These are people I trust implicitly, not people who are insecure or toxic.
What a coincidence that every one of these is workers standing up for themselves against management.
