Unspoken Currency of Office Politics: Leverage and Sanction Between Coworkers

82 physicsgraph 10 5/17/2025, 9:22:08 PM graphthinking.blogspot.com ↗

Comments (10)

foobarbecue · 9h ago
I avoid the word "sanction" whenever I can because it's an auto-antonym and just too confusing.
zeckalpha · 6h ago
Surely, this was an oversight without oversight.
lotsofpulp · 7h ago
I see “literally” in the same light.
chrisweekly · 8h ago
good idea
lurk2 · 10h ago
> This post features contributions from a coworker. Also with contributions from Gemini 2.5

Smelled it from “What's one positive action you can commit to this week?”

kappuchino · 1h ago
Well, he commented on his post the prompts: Two LLM prompts to Gemini 2.5 were used to help with the content.

> The following is a blog post. Please identify additional points of leverage and sanction in each context mentioned in the blog post.

and

> The following is a blog post. I want to make the content more engaging. I am reluctant to illustrate the points with stories, so I'm looking for other ways to make the content accessible and engaging.

Since it's mostly a list of lists and a starter text (for engagement) ... well played.

tkgally · 8h ago
And from the bullet points and the lack of a personal perspective.

I'm glad the poster at least admitted the AI contribution, though.

I use AI a lot myself for brainstorming and perspective and even advice. But I include in my prompt details about my particular situation and needs. The responses are worth much more to me than generic listicle slop.

crtified · 9h ago
Thinking back to a failed role, many years ago - the articles first 'sanctions' list reads like a checklist of achievements for the situation that I blindly dug myself into while under the high stress of the time.

It took until quite a few years later to have a clearer perspective on it. Accordingly, with hindsight I wish I'd had the articles wisdom a couple of decades ago, as a preventative - though I partly wonder if I'd have had the brain structure to really take it in, back then.

jxjnskkzxxhx · 7h ago
Im skeptical that positive interaction between teams can exist, other than as positive interaction between their leads. It seems to me that risk/reward for an individual to blame things on a different team it too appealing to pass on.

Or maybe this is how my company has trained me to think. Everything always seems to be a different team's fault

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sdwr · 11h ago
Beautiful! People's zero points can be at very different places on these scales, and it takes a lot of effort to shift them.