dear managers/directors/CEOs
this post isn't going to win me any accolades from people who have the authority to hire, but it needs to be said.
you hire people to do a job. a job in your company. a job that obviously needs to be done by someone or else you wouldn't be hiring. maybe it's a job that you once did, but chances are, you need someone to do something that you can't do yourself. just because you don't know exactly how they do this job doesn't mean THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING. instead of shitting on them every chance you get, why don't you try to appreciate the job that you hired them to do? instead of looking over their shoulders, micromanaging and calling meetings every single time they make a mistake, why don't you sit back and ask yourself, "are they doing what i hired them to do? is it MY failing as a shitty manager/director/CEO that is making them second-guess the job that they're doing? is shit getting done? are the mistakes that they've been making something that's attributable to my hovering? are they mistakes that anyone would make? are these mistakes detrimental to the job?"
yes, you are responsible for this person's output and what they produce. but you also have your own job to do. but, if you're a manager or director, chances are you have someone above you who is (or has done) the same thing to you: belittled you, bullied you, made you think that the job you're doing is sub-par. so you feel that it's your managerial duty to do the same.
it's got. to. stop.
you are a fucking manager. have the balls to say what you mean and mean what you say. if your "underling" isn't doing the job requested, then say something. say something straight-forward and to the point. a good manager would say, "your project isn't coming along because of x, y, z. here's why/how i can help/what you should be doing." a bad manager wouldn't say anything, maybe give the person enough rope to hang themselves with, and then report it to HR, never really having said anything to the employee. this is what happened to me.
the only reason that people do this kind of passive-aggressive crap is because of a few reasons:
1. you know you're a crappy manager, but you'll fight tooth and nail to keep your job and your "important" status (not to mention the salary), and you'll be damned if you're gonna let a piece of shit under you get in your way;
2. you have no self-esteem and think that every request from ABOVE needs to be followed, no questions asked. then you dump it on your "assistant's" plate, no matter how much other crap they have to do or if it's just glorified busy work that you wouldn't even give to a college freshman;
3. you make the same damn mistakes you're calling your employees out on, but who are they going to complain to?
4. you are related to someone important in the company.
as a former employee, i am tired of this crap. the back-stabbing, the hints dropped that somehow my job is jeopardy, the ability to somehow never give me all of the details that you know about a project, so when i forget something, it makes me look bad. let me tell you something, managers/directors/CEOs: any bad employees are a product of bad management. someone fucked up during hiring, training or supporting. i've had several people tell me that they can't believe that i got fired. i tell them, yes, but i got fired by a shitty manager. and i know i did my job goddamn well.
you hire people to do a job. a job in your company. a job that obviously needs to be done by someone or else you wouldn't be hiring. maybe it's a job that you once did, but chances are, you need someone to do something that you can't do yourself. just because you don't know exactly how they do this job doesn't mean THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING. instead of shitting on them every chance you get, why don't you try to appreciate the job that you hired them to do? instead of looking over their shoulders, micromanaging and calling meetings every single time they make a mistake, why don't you sit back and ask yourself, "are they doing what i hired them to do? is it MY failing as a shitty manager/director/CEO that is making them second-guess the job that they're doing? is shit getting done? are the mistakes that they've been making something that's attributable to my hovering? are they mistakes that anyone would make? are these mistakes detrimental to the job?"
yes, you are responsible for this person's output and what they produce. but you also have your own job to do. but, if you're a manager or director, chances are you have someone above you who is (or has done) the same thing to you: belittled you, bullied you, made you think that the job you're doing is sub-par. so you feel that it's your managerial duty to do the same.
it's got. to. stop.
you are a fucking manager. have the balls to say what you mean and mean what you say. if your "underling" isn't doing the job requested, then say something. say something straight-forward and to the point. a good manager would say, "your project isn't coming along because of x, y, z. here's why/how i can help/what you should be doing." a bad manager wouldn't say anything, maybe give the person enough rope to hang themselves with, and then report it to HR, never really having said anything to the employee. this is what happened to me.
the only reason that people do this kind of passive-aggressive crap is because of a few reasons:
1. you know you're a crappy manager, but you'll fight tooth and nail to keep your job and your "important" status (not to mention the salary), and you'll be damned if you're gonna let a piece of shit under you get in your way;
2. you have no self-esteem and think that every request from ABOVE needs to be followed, no questions asked. then you dump it on your "assistant's" plate, no matter how much other crap they have to do or if it's just glorified busy work that you wouldn't even give to a college freshman;
3. you make the same damn mistakes you're calling your employees out on, but who are they going to complain to?
4. you are related to someone important in the company.
as a former employee, i am tired of this crap. the back-stabbing, the hints dropped that somehow my job is jeopardy, the ability to somehow never give me all of the details that you know about a project, so when i forget something, it makes me look bad. let me tell you something, managers/directors/CEOs: any bad employees are a product of bad management. someone fucked up during hiring, training or supporting. i've had several people tell me that they can't believe that i got fired. i tell them, yes, but i got fired by a shitty manager. and i know i did my job goddamn well.
posted by mikraas at 6:27 PM
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