An addendum to this thread: there are good alternatives to call-out culture, e.g. dynamics built around the principles in @slatestarcodex's comment policy → honesty + social gentleness. Incenting honesty ideally prevents gentle people becoming doormats. http://slatestarcodex.com/comments/ https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1019642201494585344 …
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speaking just for myself, the way to handle that is to focus on effects. Mgr: “I’m sure you don’t want [person] to feel [x], so I want to flag that. If you do [abc] instead, it’ll be a lot more effective for you.“ (And of course, concrete evidnce of malice would be a diff convo.)
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I guess I'm trying to say that I'm worried "assume positive intent" is read by hurt people as "don't complain to a manager about an upsetting thing their report did, because that's you failing to assume positive intent". Not saying it happens there! But it's what I'd worry about.
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Ah, makes sense -- I meant the <something pretty racist> as a placeholder rather than something to be said out loud. :)
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