This communitarian approach is prevalent in the corporate world. Relational managers versus results-oriented managers. To a relational boss, the greatest crime isn't failing to deliver a project. It isn't producing a poor-quality product. It isn't incompetence, laziness, or even fraud. No, the cardinal sin is not being a team player. Raising any kind of objection or warning is seen as a threat to smooth relations within the team. Rest assured, they will passive-aggressively make you pay the price for doing so. They will never tell you to your face, because that would be confrontational. You will just be quietly discarded behind the scenes with nobody ever telling you why.