| The thing to realize: this is normal. People are weird - all of us. We get into our own head-space, and we interpret the world differently than others, sometimes objectivity falls by the wayside. Sometimes someone is truly working is rear off advancing the mission, but but that nobody really noticed, or if they did, that it didn't matter because 'hard work' isn't necessarily the only management requirement. They get upset because they didn't get the promotion. Lashing out at 'management' is the easiest, most common thing for any worker to do, often there's a basis for concern, but just as often people don't recognize how inherently chaotic it is the higher one treads. The moment you're in a leadership position, you will constantly be challenged by at least one 'hard case' of some kind or another. Once simple rule to help differentiate: if they are making a fuss about the product, or something that will help the company/team, then there's probably good faith there. If the fuss is always about themselves or their career, that's not good. |