[klabetron]

> Next time I'll see such a response, I probably will quit on the spot; this is unbelievably cruel.

Let me guess: you’d quit but your résumé’s out of date because you, like me, procrastinate updating it?

(Sounds like a manager trying to manage you out; make things miserable enough for you that you’ll quit without having to go through the redundancy process…)

[Sammi]

> Sounds like a manager trying to manage you out; make things miserable enough for you that you’ll quit without having to go through the redundancy process…

Dammit, now I have to live the rest of my life thinking about that this might be a thing that's actually happening.

[magnusmundus]

Mobbing is probably older than resignation as a concept.

[fhklabitz]

> Sounds like a manager trying to manage you out

This is the norm from what management does to us.

Evil techniques managers use: Isolate the IC. Put IC on a legacy or deprecated work stream. Don’t give IC anything that could increase their longevity. Work politically to get others with you on an empathetic level, such that they understand this person is a drag, in some way that doesn’t make you look frustrated or a poor leader. As a manager, you control popular opinion without the IC even knowing. Micromanage the IC. This is a sure-fire way of ruining any IC.

While what the manager should do is: let the IC do their job, encourage them, foster their growth, and be positive about them to coworkers and others.