Your boss is afraid to talk to you

Almost 70% of US managers are scared to talk to their employees

 

As are most people.

But, yes, this doesn't surprise me. It's hard to get some to even make eye contact when you pass in the newsroom.

The delegation of communication.

 

Is this why?

Workplace shootings, like Orlando’s, tick upward in U.S.

 

They're certainly not afraid to send "IMPORTANT: Read this. Changes to . . . " emails.

I have information overload on all the important/readthis/changesto things I'm supposed to be aware of.

 

That's a bad head ... "scared to talk" is not at all the same thing as "uncomfortable."

I'm uncomfortable telling a student there's no way on God's green earth he or she is going to pass my class. But I'm not scared to tell him or her that.

 

The last two bosses I had would wait till the yearly reviews to share issues, and this was after compensation bonuses had been determined. That pissed me off. Boss I have now almost talks to me too much. He’s a Chatty Cathy and has a penchant for putting his foot in his mouth. But I prefer that to the alternative.

 

We're always told that newsrooms used to be these raucous, crazy places, with larger-than-life characters either constantly cracking wise or screaming at each other.

Than again, most reporters were also supposed to be half in the bag after "lunch," so that might be true.