Our shop has three senior techs and we've all been here for years and there's this unspoken hierarchy where everyone defers to Jake on the big jobs even though officially we're all equals and I think it's creating problems with training the newer guys and with how we bid complex work. None of us wants to call it out directly because Jake's skills are legit and he's been here longest but the dynamic is making decisions weird and I don't know if the others see it the way I do.
More people experience this than they realize.
A team operates under conflicting power structures—one official, one social—and the gap between them is creating dysfunction that everyone senses but no one addresses.
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