People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates over skill competency

Re:People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates ... by MathYouF on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @12:04AM (#29090999)

The friends I've enjoyed working with and whom I've learned the most from and been the most productive with are generally a bit disagreeable (in the Big Five definition of the word).

Your personal bias towards agreeableness as a universally good trait is muddying what I think is an otherwise valid point, that people are more productive working with people they like (and sometimes, they like working with disagreeable people, as hard as that may be to believe).

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Re:People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates ... by Talanes on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @01:21AM (#29091353)

I'm not drawing up a psychological profile here, so no need to try and bring in psychological definitions of words.

Agreeable/disagreeable is a subjective judgement, and I'm the one making the judgement in this scenario. Whether someone is agreeable and whether I like to work with them are synonyms.

The conversation was generally talking culture fit and not universal qualities, after all.

Honestly, a lot of the people I'd consider disagreeable to work with are actually so overwhelmingly positive that it makes me feel like a cynical asshole if I don't severely self-censor. To the wrong group, I am the asshole.

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