(no subject)
I know now, first hand, how difficult it is to stand up to bosses who you think might not be making the right decisions.. There are the hurdles of seniority, if not because of rank, then because notionally they are more experienced and more knowledgeable.. We've been through the simulated scenario before. You try the probing questions, where you, in a non-confrontational manner remind them about other factors that impinge on the decision and highlight how their decision might not be the best one. Ideally, they would at that stage, take a step back and reconsider. If that doesn't happen, you then escalate it with the "are you sure you want to do such and such". The next step from that is essentially direct confrontation, or mutiny. Where you state blatantly that you think that they are making an incorrect choice, and get others onside with you. In practice, that last step is a hard one. It was the one I couldn't do today. All I can say, is that I am glad for the nurses there, and though it may have been a passive-aggressive way to go about things instead, we managed to avoid almost certain disaster.
Yes, I need to learn a different way to go about things.
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Man: You were actually telling the truth.
Jack Sparrow: I do that quite a lot. Yet people are always surprised.