You’ve got to read the room!
I'm very picky with the words I choose to say things like this (like multiple 5-second pauses at times) in order to demonstrate that I understand both sides of the reasoning, but also to get the point across. Not wanting to talk up my ability to do this, but you have to know where literally everyone else 'in the room' exists in relation to your point, especially the leadership representative.
If there's an ambitious and morally flexible colleague in attendance, they will smell blood in the water and rip you to shreds to 'defend' the company/management to the benefit of their own career. If your leadership representative is a fucking snowflake, they may react like an injured mother lion protecting her cubs. If both of those are true, then start clearing out your desk as soon as possible.
The only scenario is if everything is just right. You need the entire room to be almost visibly nodding at what you're saying.
If they are feeding you corporate BS, then pushing back on it will probably hurt you.
If you get to know them better, it may soften, or it may not.
It also depends on the context of the communication. I’ve had managers who were very open with me and would tell me everything with no filter… but when certain messages came down from HR, they’d have to put their game face on and read them verbatim for legal reasons, which was a lot of corporate BS.
I don't know your whole story.
But when you hit that point, at a certain limit, the only option that remains is to start your own company and leave all the drama behind.
Good luck!
The worst that could happen is you get fired of course, did you expect anything more serious could happen?
You've reached the end!
wryoak•7h ago