Taking your boss’s emotions into consideration, even on a hypothetical level, can break you from responding with a knee-jerk reaction. Perhaps they’re stressed at home because their spouse is sick or they’ve had a new baby. Maybe their anger toward you is the only way they can manage their disappointment in you, or perhaps they’re grieving for the loss of their mother and they don’t have anyone to talk to, so their emotional outlets target their employees. None of these things may be true, and none of these things excuses your boss of mistreating you at work, but taking a moment to evaluate
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