rather than “what you are about to do this wrong”, i.e., is unwilling to make the complaint in his own name, that’s evidence you should disregard the complaint.
Eh, alternatively it’s evidence you should ditch the adviser. A yes man might be willing to make the oblique criticism because they’re unwilling to make the accurate-but-offensive-to-higher-status-boss criticism.
The point is that if someone says:
rather than “what you are about to do this wrong”, i.e., is unwilling to make the complaint in his own name, that’s evidence you should disregard the complaint.
Eh, alternatively it’s evidence you should ditch the adviser. A yes man might be willing to make the oblique criticism because they’re unwilling to make the accurate-but-offensive-to-higher-status-boss criticism.