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   Mx. Aria Stewart (aredridel@kolektiva.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 07:56:29 JST Mx. Aria Stewart

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   It's fascinating how things break when there's conflict:

   Loyalty to authority is often how a lot of bullshit happens to people lower ranked in the workplace. It's the core of the pyramid-structured workplace and its dysfunctions. This is how middle management sells out workers: when their loyalty is tested, they either side with authority, against workers, or they get the boot.

   Individual workers are often rewarded for loyalty to those in positions of authority, given chances at promotion and growth. Often to the detriment of their peers: this is the backstabbing politics of some corporate culture.

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     Mx. Aria Stewart (aredridel@kolektiva.social)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2024 07:56:31 JST Mx. Aria Stewart

     I think we should talk about loyalty, especially in the workplace, but just in general in our culture.

     It is at once overvalued and undervalued in a bunch of ways, and I think we often misplace it.

     There's loyalty to authority; loyalty to our group; loyalty to a partner; loyalty to a fandom.

     But the thing about loyalty is it's kinda empty until it's tested, and we find out what that's really about. And testing loyalty either destroys groups or strengthens them.

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.