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[kradeelav]

there is a real art to telling both creatives and middle managers (and middle manager creatives) 'you're an idiot omg' without actually, saying,,, 'you're an idiot' lol

boss: hey for this billboard design here's the copy you asked for [dumps a literal paragraph in my lap]
my inner mouth: dude i love you but with total respect what the actual FUCK is this star wars opening crawl bullshit omfg
my (outer) mouth: copy that, yessir, putting it in 🫡
(and then later, in private, i will very delicately outline how a literal Paragraph of copy ain't going to be readable for shit and very coincidentally have a beautiful alternative already prepped to immediately pivot to)

funnily enough i'm also running into this with my architect dad (in a similar boss-level) designing the house because he was all 'can you tell your mom to back off because she's driving me crazayyyyyyyy i can't draw this next round without her HAVING OPINIONS at me.'

(what he doesn't know is *i* briefly half-sicc'd her on him because i personally was not happy with the latest round of changes and am benignly using that as leverage, heh.)

little manipulative, totally. but there's an art to it that'll leave everyone ultimately content. :p

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[ellerean]

haha as a middle manager myself, it's so interesting to see the subtle ways my people say "this is dumb" without saying it.

(I then tell my boss "Well, X has an opinion that I picked up on and agree with, so it is helpful sometimes!)

[kradeelav]

LOL 100% have seen that boss reiterate the same kind of opinion messaging and it's always a delight to see it when it's executed well / can shift minds positively. sometimes it really is in how it's done.