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Angry engineers get excluded from decisions in a self-reinforcing cycle
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An essay argues that displaying anger at work causes colleagues to route around you, excluding you from decisions and creating a spiral of further anger and marginalization.
Engineers who express anger at work risk being cut out of key conversations and decisions, which compounds over time. Understanding this dynamic helps engineers recognize when they're being sidelined and adjust their behavior before the cycle becomes entrenched.
Written by elseif from the cluster below · every claim links back to a sourceThe three things worth knowing
Anger causes colleagues to go quiet and route around the angry engineer, making decisions in backchannels instead.
Angry engineers often believe they're essential, but effective engineers who get listened to are rarely the angry ones.
Anger often stems from caring about work, which is valuable, but misalignment between personal and organizational priorities causes it to overflow into anger.
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