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Warning coworkers

Warning coworkers

I constantly had to watch my mouth, gradually working on people. With one new coworker (a dev):

  1. I cryptically said, "Of course, all workplaces suffer from internal politics. [shrug, big smile] So just in case you hit any silly politics from management [eyeroll]... feel free to discuss with me & hopefully I can advise you!"
  2. Included her on the workers' skype channel, so my radical non-dev coworkers could more easily support her
  3. As King Joffrey kept screwing her over, we helped her see the dynamics

One day, she had enough & quit. As a postmortem, I asked: "When you first started here, I didn't want to tell you everything upfront b/c I feared you'd think me crazy. What'd happen if I instead simply dropped my mask & warned you about everything that'd happen?"

She replied, "I would've assumed you were ensnaring me in a political game & wouldn't have trusted you." The dev room laughed

— exceprted from "Thoughts on McAlevey from a tech worker"

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