Smile or the world smacks you.
Let’s look at a hypothetical situation.
A manager tells one of their employees that the employee does not smile enough around other people when in the manager’s presence and this is disrespectful to the manager. (Note that it is when they are together around other people specifically, also note that the person doesn’t frown or make faces. They just have a casual look about them. Hypothetically you understand.) To further that point, the manager then states the employee needs to respect the manager’s “superiority” and it is not their fault they were promoted into this position rather than the employee. To finish this hypothetical discussion with a flourish, the manager also said that if the employee couldn’t do that, then they could move on.
Okay is it just me, or is this (no wait, I meant “would this be” not “is this” since this is purely hypothetical) a violation of a bunch of basic management/leadership principles? Not to mention border-line illegal.
So here is your question for the day, if you had to work for someone like this, would you come to work and “grin and bear it” as you pray daily for a lighting strike or would you smile brightly as you quit?