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Re:People with Depression Use Language Differently by splintercell on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @11:11AM (#18800690)
> I was completely clueless about many of my team members' very personal emotional baggage (everyone had different stories, but the key point is that everyone often made very negative assumptions and interpretations).

Serious question, how did your team have that many people with these issues. I presume that presuming a standard distribution, every team would have certain number of people with certain mental health related issues, but if your team has more than others, then there must be some hiring heuristic which skewed things that way. Am I correct?

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Re:People with Depression Use Language Differently by PakG1 on Thursday January 03, 2019 @02:50AM (#18813555)
The organization doesn't normally fire people and these people had been working there for over a decade, some near 2 decades. Whatever hiring heuristics existed, I'd have to ask several generations of managers and directors prior to me.
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