Originally Posted by timmhaan
are you guys\girls cautious on how much of the bad stuff you reveal?
You gotta be. My basic rule is to be open and tell the truth. However, the massive exception to this rule is that it must be ignored when following it will come to no good.
If someone works their butt off to make something special for you, you say it tastes great. If your wife is in conflict with her boss, but you think he is right, you say things that support her views both in private and in pulbic. If you almost got taken out by a truck that lost control after colliding head on with some drunken maniac (who barely missed you 10 seconds earlier), you either say nothing or that there was a terrible accident that closed the highway, but fortunately it didn't hold you up.
Reporting bad news to people who can't handle it is a bad idea unless you have reason to expect that doing so will benefit them somehow.