Evasive
Boot Licker
Yes-man
🟢 Low legal riskTelltale symptoms
- Becomes a different person in front of executives
- Passes down unreasonable demands from above without filtering
- Never communicates team's realistic opinions upward
Psychology profile
Authority obedience tendency (Milgram effect). Equates superior approval with survival, prioritizing 'line management' over team interests.
Legal risk analysis
Not harassment — ineffective leadership
Likely to be read as legitimate management, so relationship tactics beat legal ones here. Try the counter-strategies below first, and start documenting if it escalates.
Counter-strategies
- 1Prepare team reality with data and try to report directly to upper management
- 2Counter-ask: 'How should we prioritize this request?'
- 3Analyze feasibility of unreasonable requests and present alternatives
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