Here's my $0.02 sans sugar coating.
More than one issue at play here:-
1. He is making the classic 'logical/rational' person's mistake of thinking that everyone else is rational - they aren't. This causes him to get frustrated with them, they see that and resent it.
2. He needs to find another job - people at his current company have already written him off. The biases have been set in their minds and now everything he does that is good will be ignored and everything bad that confirms those biases will be exaggeratedly noticed.
3. He needs to understand that in a corporate environment people (especially bosses) are optimizing for the WIIFM constraint and almost never for the 'how can we meet the company's goals in the most optimal way?' constraint. This can seem like blatant hypocrisy until you realise that this is just how it is. The lion must feed, right?
4. He needs to loosen up, not expect so much from others and consider this 'rule'; bosses expect him to do his best not the bare minimum.
Sorry if anything above seems harsh because I am honestly trying to help as I was in the same rut as him in my early twenties.
Last edited by madeinuk; 05/12/14 04:27 AM.
