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by on_and_off 2385 days ago
So far, all of the people I know that have been boasting about their "I gave brutally honest feedback" only mean "I will tear you down at every opportunity".

It is always "brutaly honest when it comes to put people down, but weirdly enough, these same person never have positive feedback to give.

Even if it was the case, it would not be worth it. Even as a foreigner weirded out by the "everything is awesome" way of speaking in California, tearing down your colleagues is not how you build a healthy team.

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"People who are brutally honest generally enjoy the brutality more than the honesty." - Richard Needham
When I did online dating, I had a few red flags that I used to exit out of a profile. One of them was boasting about being "brutally honest", "honest to a fault", and/or "I tell it like it is."