Comment by balamatom
4 hours ago
>You can’t hand wave away the work of interpreting (aka listening) to someone.
And yet, that's what their manager did.
Not only that, they precluded interpretation for the other people, by running the documentation through the language mixer.
And half the commenters are blaming GP for making the effort to do the right thing.
"Power", "authority", literally refers to the ability to hand-wave interpretative labor uncontested. (See: Graeber 2006, yeah the one about his mum dying)
To be clear, I was primarily responding to their notion of perceiving other people as imprecise rather than anything their manager did.