How is your relationship your boss? Are you able to speak freely and openly?

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My current boss I can speak freely with on professional topics. There is some personal exchanges. My previous boss at the same company I could NOT. She took ideas for improvement personally as a ding against her. A very simple time saving change took two years to implement. I brought it up to her, she wouldn't listen until the third time. After I showed every other person, individually, how it would save time. Current boss, I brought up a time saving idea, she immediately scheduled a training session for me to show others.

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By boss being my manager, absolutely I speak freely. If it's an exec I support, I will with one that I have a really close relationship with. Another, I might bring something up but be as diplomatic as possible. Others I bite my tongue because while we work well together, I just don't have that rapport yet.

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