He is incapable of saying, ' I thought that last advertising campaign had a lot of good ideas in it, but perhaps next time we could give the copy more vitality.' Instead, he is apt to blurt out bluntly, 'That' campaign was a disaster. A child of three could have done better!' The fact that he is often right does not help. Other employees resent his manner even more, and he is too insensitive to notice. ……..'s bluntness may not be aimed directly at his manager. He is not insensitive enough to call his boss a fool to his face. But the inference is always there that the manager must have had a mental aberration to allow someone to produce such a shoddy piece of work.