[hnarn]

Or the in-between variant: constant meetings and initiatives to create the illusion of worker influence on major decisions when there is in reality none at all. A complete waste of time to check a box somewhere about "horizontal hierarchy", and at the end of the day the decisions are being made "in the sauna" as it were anyway.

[banannaise]

One of the best things for my mental health at work was learning to say (and believe) "I recommend we do X. If the VP decides to do Y instead, that will make the delivery date later, but that's his decision and ultimately his problem, not mine."