@210de87f @43d7c4ea I’ve found myself in a situation recently where I was working for the very small Austrian subsidiary of a major US based tech company and ran into some major mental health issues, a combo of a pre-existing condition and management doing stuff that pushed it into a full scale crisis. A lot of the problem was caused by people in the US simply not being able to grasp the concept of, e.g., an employer’s statutory duty of care for its employees’ mental health under Austrian employment law. The idea that you’re not actually allowed to give your employees nervous breakdowns just hadn’t crossed their mind. It’s such a fundamental cultural gap between the anglophone world and how things work here that they are literally unable to grok it. 

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"The idea that you’re not actually allowed to give your employees nervous breakdowns"

That hits close to home. "Performance managing" people out of a job seems much more the go-to response. 

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