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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a coworker like this and the behavior would almost be funny if it weren’t so harmful. She will keep backing up her weird, wrong decisions/assertions until people just start avoiding her. [/quote]

That sucks but at least people recognize the wrong-headedness of her behavior.

I worked in a place once where there was a manager who did/said very inappropriate and offensive things (including touching people inappropriately, gossiping about colleagues' personal lives, inserting herself into people's personal lives at work) but when people would object, the rest of management would close ranks around this woman and protect her. It becomes this weird institutional gaslighting. If anyone else in the organization had done similar things, they would have been roundly, and correctly, reprimanded and maybe fired. But if this one woman did it, people would protect her and defend her. It was bizarre.

But I guess in retrospect, it's not that crazy. She was in a managerial position. Probably other people in management felt that if they condemned her, they might open themselves up to criticism as well. By protecting her, they were protecting their future ability to do sketchy things.

So I guess when you are in a position of authority, there is often a real benefit to not apologizing or admitting fault, because your position of power might be enough to insulate you from consequences.

That was a really dysfunctional workplace though. A shame, because I really liked the actual job, but I couldn't stick around due to the culture.[/quote]

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