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> What the engineers believe management thinks is relevant. Your last sentence seems to prove a point here.

Yep, you have a point.

And you're absolutely right: I shouldn't have even considered that suggestion, even though I'm not their manager, or even though I'm anonymous.

No need to censor your private thoughts. But beware that many engineers have seen broken promises by management at some time in their career.

So they are difficult to convince that this time it’s different.

You're absolutely right.

And I forgot to thank you for the insight you gave me with your previous post:

> What management thinks is irrelevant to morale. > What the engineers believe management thinks is relevant.

Maybe we should focus on listening more to the engineers, instead of focusing on sending the right messages.

Might seem obvious to anyone outside, but sometimes we need to be reminded of those things. Thanks.