Are You Protecting the Wrong People at Work?

In this My Crazy Office episode, Kathi and Katherine pose a question: Are you protecting the wrong person at work? They start with a question from a manager who’s been protecting a skilled-but-difficult employee. This person’s behavior offends other employees so much that HR recently intervened, insisting the manager confront the employee. Kathi and Katherine discuss why it can be tempting to protect certain people at work and how to resist doing it. When is being protective helpful to an employee and when is just enabling poor behavior? Listen here.

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Are You Protecting the Wrong People at Work? is an episode from My Crazy Office by Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster.

This episode is 11:31 long.

This episode was published on Jan 20, 2026.

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