Originally Posted by
William
This is one of the things I hate most about SEEs. They are virtually incapable of judging who is competent or not, and rather than make objective assessments based on the merit of what someone says, they make decisions by the hierarchy. With leading Se, they respect power systems, and will base their decisions upon those who have social authority. They are unable to determine if what an authoritative figure says make sense or not (Ti PoLR), and oftentimes will blindly trust those with power. SEEs can be led astray and manipulated. They don't stand up against others by the merit and strength of their own beliefs and systems (Ti), but will oftentimes check the opinions of those in power and with authority, in order to keep relations and trust the 'professionals' in a Te-valuing way.
I'll add a personal story: at work, I used to do job function 'A', we'll call it, which affected managers doing job function 'B'. The company restructured, and I got promoted to a new role, in which I had an SEE supervisor. When it came time to do job function 'A' again, the SEE supervisor didn't trust my opinion on what was best, even though I used to do the exact thing before, and my opinion was completely trusted by other managers doing job function 'B'. She went to those same managers and asked their opinion. Why? Because they were officially managers. (Ironically, some of those managers came back to me to ask my opinion behind the SEE's back, so it was ultimately still my decision, and just a lot of pointless corporate politics and ego-massaging) SEEs aren't able to gauge competency at all, even when someone is doing something they already know how to do and has done in the past. Again, they discredit personal experiences and memories an an Si-ignoring way and simply go by the hierarchy/'professionals'.