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Dave • Edited

"She was writing about this very particular question: What to do if you are being disrespected and ignored?"

This is worth examining. I've managed teams (again, not tech) for close to two decades now. One of the things I've noticed is that often people's perceptions of being "disrespected" is entirely wrongly placed. In the worst-case scenarios, which are unfortunately all too frequent, the person claiming to be bullied is actually the person doing the bullying and creating the same toxic environment they complain about.

Simply taking a complaint at face-value, and assuming the person making the accusation is automatically correct, is actually very dangerous ground. This is not "ignoring" anyone. It is accepting there will always be two sides to the story and both might have validity.