my only motivation to be there is to earn money and my 401k. So many of my coworkers and management feel offended by this statement.
I’m union. Union lawyer thinks this is a management strategy to try to manipulate me.
Cue BS answer for any c-suite that tries making me feel insecure over this:
well, I’m a terrible liar, that’s why I’m asking you :D
the unfriendly party might be easy: I’m always friendly and direct because I want to work. maybe that?
I always default to “I’ll continue to do the best I can under the circumstances”, the circumstances being total organizational chaos and zero support. It’s one step short of “You fuckfaces wouldn’t piss on me if I was on fire, but I like working here marginally more than being homeless so I’ll put up with it”.
If you don’t include the explanation of what you mean by circumstances, it could be misinterpreted as not being motivated
yeah I intend it to come across that way when I say something like this
there’s not much motivation in my circumstances, and I’m tired of repeating it like a broken record, so now I say less specific things