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.
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:
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.
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