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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by scoobyyabbadoo on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @02:31AM (#20992258)
I just don't have 1-1s with anyone I manage. Don't want problems for having 1-1s with women, don't want discrimination accusations for having 1-1s with men. No one can accuse me of anything if everything happens in an open office with plenty of witnesses.
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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by dragonwriter on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @12:45PM (#20997271)
> No one can accuse me of anything if everything happens in an open office with plenty of witnesses.

If you won't have one-on-ones over issues that are personal and sensitive, and force them to be dealt with “in an open office with plenty of witnesses”, then, yeah, there will probably be things you can be accused of on that basis alone.

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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by argv_empty on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @12:35PM (#20997163)
Don't want problems for having 1-1s with women

What sort of problems? I don't hear about many cases of women accusing other women of using their status as manager for sexual harassment.

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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by scoobyyabbadoo on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @01:46PM (#20998008)
I'm a lesbian...
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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by CRConrad on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @03:18AM (#20992524)
How do you do performance reviews (or whatever they're called at your workplace) with those you manage, then?
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Re:Richard M. Stallman resigns by scoobyyabbadoo on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @09:12AM (#20994580)
Good point, those are private, but I go in with the paper version of their review in that case and they sign a document at the end which states we discussed everything in the document during the meeting.
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