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[beerandt]

>a misalignment between their leadership and human values seems pretty concerning

I mean this is what it boils down to. Does your self assessment of your value align with your bosses assessment, and if not, then who's wrong?

I've been guilty of assigning tasks to employees just to keep their hands off of another area of a project.

At that point in time, their best value to me was being busy with something else.