[mplanchard]

I completely agree, and I felt the same way when we had to do these for a previous job. The whole process felt _embarassing_, honestly. And, in practice, just like you said, people just act how they act, and interactions with people were shaped infinitely more by that than by the user manuals, which afaik were never referenced by anyone once written.

I might appreciate being able to read this as a manager, and I would take what insight I could glean from it as a coworker. However, even as someone who tries hard to adapt my natural method of interaction to other people, I can’t imagine their poorly self-descriptive document is going to be more useful than a month of direct contact and honest communication.