Evasive

Boot Licker

Yes-man

🟢 Low legal risk

Telltale 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

  1. 1Prepare team reality with data and try to report directly to upper management
  2. 2Counter-ask: 'How should we prioritize this request?'
  3. 3Analyze feasibility of unreasonable requests and present alternatives

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Boot Licker (Yes-man) — Workplace Villain Guide