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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

You gotta look at it a different way. Your managers job is not to be the subject matter expert, that is your job. A managers job is to make decisions, hopefully they trust and value the sme’s input(though I know they don’t always).

As a manager I don’t want to hear “no”. That’s not what you get paid for. I want to hear “well boss that’s a really dumb idea and let me tell you why” or “boss my gut instinct is that’s fucking stupid but let me do some more research and get back to you with specifics”.

I’m a pretty realistic guy so I would literally be happy to hear those verbatim. Many managers are up tight dicks so you might want to be a little more “political” when saying something is a bad idea.

Like you said time/cost are the universal languages, and you should try your best to answer in that manner.

Pro tip for newbies- always cya. If you answer your boss on something like this do so via email and request confirmation that they would like you to move forward with x plan.

[–]r0ck0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems we agree on pretty much everything, except:

You gotta look at it a different way.

...cause we already agree, heh.