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- Aug 14, 2022
I got into a discussion today with a former employee, with whom things did not go well, who literally told me that I was treating him like a dog to a point where he was afraid to talk to me. Kind of made me think.
Looking back, I can kind of see it. Even though I never meant to hurt him as a person, I hated him as an employee, and I was pretty cruel in some ways. The more he fucked up, the harder I came on him and the harder he fucked up. To me it felt like there was nothing I could do to improve the situation but get rid of him, for him it felt like he lacked support and could not tell me things. Faults on both sides if I am being honest, but anyway.
If we take apart the obvious no-no things, I basically talk and behave the same in my professional and personal life as I do here. Some people have considered me to be a bully. I can also be extremely nice, but the moment someone loses my respect I almost stop to think of them as an individual. They just become an inconvenience.
I am not trying to say this is a good thing or anything. I am just curious to know how others are IRL vs how they are online, and if either affect their behavior in the other sphere.
Looking back, I can kind of see it. Even though I never meant to hurt him as a person, I hated him as an employee, and I was pretty cruel in some ways. The more he fucked up, the harder I came on him and the harder he fucked up. To me it felt like there was nothing I could do to improve the situation but get rid of him, for him it felt like he lacked support and could not tell me things. Faults on both sides if I am being honest, but anyway.
If we take apart the obvious no-no things, I basically talk and behave the same in my professional and personal life as I do here. Some people have considered me to be a bully. I can also be extremely nice, but the moment someone loses my respect I almost stop to think of them as an individual. They just become an inconvenience.
I am not trying to say this is a good thing or anything. I am just curious to know how others are IRL vs how they are online, and if either affect their behavior in the other sphere.
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<There's literally nothing wrong with doxing", I purport that one should try and live as truthfully on, or off, the Internet as possible. And if they can't do that because they're afraid of losing respect or being cancelled, then they're like a horse that's been trained by an electric fence, likely from schooldays, not to go beyond a certain point without receiving a shock, and as a sovereign adult, still obeys the boundaries without the fence even standing anymore.