No wants to be fired. No one wants to lose a game either. But it happens. People get fired. People quit.
Seeing yourself in him is investing him with your ego. This is not an insult, it's the core of the behavior. It is why we do these things. They are ego-preserving actions we take. Because I'm literally talking about your sense of self and not using it in a colloquial sense.
And seeing yourself in him is what you are doing when you say you didn't want to fire him because you wouldn't want to be fired. You are saying he should feel a certain way because you would feel a certain way. You are the Platonic person other people are templated off of.
And you can deny it, but all the reasons you give circle it. We often care too much about how we are perceived by others and often try to influence that even though we have very little control over it.
One should not love firing people either. That's a whole other thing.
Seeing yourself in him is investing him with your ego. This is not an insult, it's the core of the behavior. It is why we do these things. They are ego-preserving actions we take. Because I'm literally talking about your sense of self and not using it in a colloquial sense.
And seeing yourself in him is what you are doing when you say you didn't want to fire him because you wouldn't want to be fired. You are saying he should feel a certain way because you would feel a certain way. You are the Platonic person other people are templated off of.
And you can deny it, but all the reasons you give circle it. We often care too much about how we are perceived by others and often try to influence that even though we have very little control over it.
One should not love firing people either. That's a whole other thing.