If you see condescension on the part of the thrower, you are of course absolutely right.
In the dog-eat-dog (sorry) business world, bosses are the big dogs (again sorry about the analogy). They’re like the dog owners. They’re masters. Subordinates are the weak ones. Bosses do the condescending act of throwing you a bone – by smiling back at them – because, as researchers find out, they are not afraid of you.
A bit of psychology here and quite understandable it is too, especially when considered at the subconscious level.
Hence the researchers conclude that being smiled back by the boss isn’t necessarily such a wonderful thing – your smiling face only reminds them one more time who is boss. They are and they’re in control.
In other words, the boss’s smiling face isn’t as heartwarming as it may seem, just in the same way the hungry dog will discover soon after that there is little meat to eat off of a bone. All the bone serves to do is whetting the dog’s appetite and perhaps makes it even more hungry and miserable.
Call the boss’s smile cold comfort then.
Alright, here are more media examples of “throwing a bone”:
1. From the outside it’s hard to spot the difference between the iPhone 4S and its predecessor the iPhone 4. But tear it apart, and there’s a huge difference – for one, there’s less Intel inside.
Research firm IHS iSuppli took the new phone apart and found that chips made by Infineon, whose wireless operations Intel bought last year, have been bounced out of the 4S in favor of a new set of chips from Qualcomm Inc.
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