Reply #48: Could be, but there's probably a tendency toward callousness below the surface [View All]

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Plus, as another poster pointed out, many people lose the ability to think for themselves ( assuming they had it in the first place ) when either fear for their job, or the desire to be a good subordinate is the main concern.

I've noticed it a lot through my working years, though with more benign, obviously less grave consequences: You can tell they know what's really what, but like they "have to" argue with you or oppose you because they have to do what so-and so above said. Now that boss, were he/she there, would probably agree with me/us, but the concubine supervisor just defaults to what he was told and become very irritated just because he was challenged. I don't want to start a regional or provincial war here, but I notice this type behavior is very much more common in the southeast US.