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My Hands are Tied


Pretending to be helpless due to the influence of a higher authority or process, when under the same circumstances but with a different person, there would be a different outcome.

The management role will sometimes demand that we enforce policy, rules, processes etc and make difficult choices and decisions. However, this becomes a dirty trick when the rules are enforced for some, but, under the same circumstances, we are more ...

 

More details and guidance on how to deal with someone playing this Dirty Trick can be found in "21 Dirty Tricks at Work" by Colin Gautrey and Mike Phipps and published by Capstone Wiley.





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