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Anonymous
02/23/19 at 1:11PM UTC
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Women who’ve become managers, what has been your strangest/unexpected reaction to your position of power?

One of my colleagues who I now manage doesn’t like to make eye contact with me. I had no idea he would react this way. I think he feels like I took his role but I really thought he would’ve been the most supportive person about my promotion. Managers, what’s your unexpected/strange story? Also, how do I deal with this no eye contact situation?

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Olivia Oz
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02/23/19 at 3:05PM UTC
I knew my team before I was a manager and they treated me like a peer. Once I became a manager I felt like a few of them changed the way they acted around me and I could feel their caution within conversations. It was really strange but over the following month, they relaxed around me and it all kind of shook out.

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