How faking your feelings at work can be damaging

Re:How faking your feelings at work can be damaging by brailsafe on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @12:37PM (#17356942)

Haven't read the article, but I know that faking your feelings is a great way to subtract from team morale, particularly in situations most susceptible to tension. Sure you may keep your job, but great workplaces don't get to be great workplaces by instilling fear in people so they don't speak up about issues or bother to understand the personalities of their colleagues. If all of your colleagues are sociopaths, you're going to have a bad time.

Edit: That's not to say that you shouldn't necessarily be principled about these things.

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Re:How faking your feelings at work can be damaging by warent on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @12:52PM (#17357070)

I was with you until the sociopath part. Faking emotions and sociopathy are two different things

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Re:How faking your feelings at work can be damaging by brailsafe on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @02:35PM (#17358284)

You're right. Upon reconsideration, I think what I meant those as two independent examples of unhealthy company compositions in which lack of authentic emotion could lead to negative outcomes. Though I suppose it depends on the place.

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