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Sometimes it's easier to understand what we should do when we look at what we should not do. Here are a dozen items for your consideration.

•      Never give me work in the morning. Always wait until 4:00 and then bring it to me. The challenge of a deadline is refreshing.

•      If it's really a 'rush job,' run in and interrupt me every ten minutes to inquire how it's going. That helps.

•      Always leave without telling anyone where you're going. It gives me a chance to be creative when someone asks where you are.

•      If my arms are full of papers, boxes, books, or supplies, don't open the door for me. I need to learn how to function as a paraplegic and opening doors is good training.

•      If you give me more than one job to do, don't tell me which is the priority. Let me guess.

•      Do your best to keep me late. I like the office and really have nowhere to go or anything to do.

•      If a job I do pleases you, keep it a secret. Leaks like that could cost me a promotion.

•      If you don't like my work, tell everyone. I like my name to be popular in conversation.

•      If you have special instructions for a job, don't write them down. In fact, save them until the job is almost done.

•      Never introduce me to the people you're with. When you refer to them later, my shrewd deductions will identify them.

•      Be nice to me only when the job I'm doing for you could really change your life.

•      Tell me all your little problems. No one else has any and it's nice to know someone is less fortunate.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Yep AA, all that is very familiar!

[Debs.]

....`been there!

[cem_devecioglu]

 

yep..managers always follow these rules.strictly..

[jerry]

Hmm, all sounds very familiar.....

[mantagte]

Sometimes it's easier to understand what we should do when we look at what we should not do. Here are a dozen items for your consideration.

•      Never give me work in the morning. Always wait until 4:00 and then bring it to me. The challenge of a deadline is refreshing.

•      If it's really a 'rush job,' run in and interrupt me every ten minutes to inquire how it's going. That helps. •      Always leave without telling anyone where you're going. It gives me a chance to be creative when someone asks where you are.

•      If my arms are full of papers, boxes, books, or supplies, don't open the door for me. I need to learn how to function as a paraplegic and opening doors is good training.

•      If you give me more than one job to do, don't tell me which is the priority. Let me guess.

•      Do your best to keep me late. I like the office and really have nowhere to go or anything to do.

•      If a job I do pleases you, keep it a secret. Leaks like that could cost me a promotion.

•      If you don't like my work, tell everyone. I like my name to be popular in conversation.

•      If you have special instructions for a job, don't write them down. In fact, save them until the job is almost done.

•      Never introduce me to the people you're with. When you refer to them later, my shrewd deductions will identify them.

•      Be nice to me only when the job I'm doing for you could really change your life.

•      Tell me all your little problems. No one else has any and it's nice to know someone is less fortunate.

guilty as charged doing that

[Entwood]

Oh so true ...  

 

[feeutfo]

ive been meaning to post something about management for a while.   How, as an employee, do you manage your manager? I dont get it. What am i missing?

 For instance, your manager employs you to do a job, a job you've done all your adult life, he knows your qualified, your reputation, and your level of competence. Thats why he employed you in the first place, right?

So, your doing your job, in the process you find incorrect procedures, lets say... room for improvement. Things could be done better quicker cheaper. I'm being polite.... Basickly the guy doesnt have a clue what hes doing. This causes you problems, sends you round the houses and basically makes your life unnecessarily difficult and miserable. How do you approach your manager about it? If at all? Bearing in mind that you cant just tell him hes a cock and leave as there are no other jobs in a decreasing market.

I know some of you are in management, and i hope to learn something. Ive worked a few places now and generally the staff have been "above" it , to their credit. In fact the general feeling has been that the company has achieved in spite of the management, not because of it, even as they take all the credit for the company meeting target against the odds.

Also ive yet to encounter a manager, that when previous issues encountered elsewhere have been explained, will not say, "oh, dont put me in with that lot" and then proceed to act like all the other egotistical children ive had the misfortune to work for.

What are they for....?..... Anyone?

[Vamps]

My Manager is great, mind she has done the job that I do, so she knows what she is talking about, most of the time.  Have to keep her in check a little, but that is a Gender thing.....

[albitz]

Careful Chris,theres an old saying in management..."never employ someone under you who knows more than you do".
I think the trick is to point them in the right direction,and let them and their ego think it was their idea,easier said than done I know.

[feeutfo]

Careful Chris,theres an old saying in management..."never employ someone under you who knows more than you do".
I think the trick is to point them in the right direction,and let them and their ego think it was their idea,easier said than done I know.

Thats the make or break for me, this lot aint even interested, wont even admit the idea in the first place. I just hope they get found out and moved on before its too late, these guys have 150 jobs in their hands. Thats the really scary bit.

[dad1uk]

It takes great skill and training to be a manager, and you all just mock.....



Mind you its not easy to manage a manager either because most of them are 'over qualified' to have the job......