[throwaway_wuuts]

- That governance by fear is a sure way to kill motivation, creativity and to have passive employees who do not dare to fix things.

- That supporting a competitive environment between employees is a sure way to kill motivation and creativity.

- That the people going the extra mile to ensure a stable production environment gets acknowledged for their effort.

- That throwing people under the bus makes you look really incompetent as a manager.

- That having an island of free speech within a bad corporate culture will keep the good engineers around.

- That one of the prime objectives of a boss is to shield employees from insane and impossible demands from other departments.

[weavie]

If you have to tell your manager this, they are not going to be the sort of manager who will listen.

[lambdasquirrel]

Not only that but chances are that they will become resentful and retaliate, perhaps unconsciously, perhaps not.

If you have a manager who needs to hear these sort of things they usually need to hear it in a very indirect way, such that they won’t lay the blame on you for being the messenger.