Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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Steelmanning is rarely ever used in an honest way. IMO, It’s almost always used as a way to dodge.
I worked with a person who would constantly do this:
At one time I just hung up on them.
The exchange you described doesn't sound anything like steelmanning to me. Seems more like your coworker didn't want to engage for some reason.
They were my boss.
Oh, a troll type, then
I dunno. He kinda just started doing it one day. At first I thought he just didn’t no the answer to the question and didn’t want to sound stupid. But when I call him on it, And asked him to stop answering questions with questions, his response was literally a question. So I assume he just decided he wasn’t going to like me anymore.
But who cares now, I don’t work there!
Sounds more like your boss just didn't understand the business. "By the book" managers often have no idea how the business actually works, so they hide behind vague answers and questions. They tend to be liked by upper management because they'll just do what's asked without questions. They tend to be hated by people below them because they can't answer any questions and often know less than the people they supervise.