One of my jobs it was my first week in an office, which everyone knows means you got fuck all to do. After 7 hours there (2 of which were me fucking around on the computer pretending like I had stuff to do), after asking my manager what I should be working on multiple times, I finally said "well, if you have nothing for me, mind if I take off and we’ll pick it up tomorrow?
After three days of this he had a sit down talk with me that “people had noticed” me leaving and they had a strict 8 hours in office policy there. I was completely dumbfounded by this, that he himself had said I was cool to leave and had fully admitted there was nothing for me to do, but also proved he was not the least bit willing to confront his boss, even with something as small as “well he had nothing to do”.
Needless to say it did not work out, and I’m much happier at another company that treats me like a grown up
for a couple years I was in a management position, doing half of a manager’s job (we didn’t have somebody for that position so it was half me and half my boss who is the owner)
anyways I always treated people like adults from the start, and my best two employees are the juniors I brought up from basically no experience. except for knowledge, they’re honestly better than a couple of my seniors (and they’re both intermediate now because of their reliability). I hate that I actually have to treat some of my seniors as children because otherwise they miss stuff / don’t know what to do. like dude you have ten years in the industry, you should know if you change [this] then you need to recheck [that]
and part of treating people like adults was judging them on results, not time at desk. which was made quite a bit more necessary due to the fact that I was managing an in-office team remotely haha
crazy how treating competent people like adults will get you great results, though. almost like if they care, they’ll do good work. unfortunately it seems the company has outgrown that now
good for you guys. also damn that is some terrible management
One of my jobs it was my first week in an office, which everyone knows means you got fuck all to do. After 7 hours there (2 of which were me fucking around on the computer pretending like I had stuff to do), after asking my manager what I should be working on multiple times, I finally said "well, if you have nothing for me, mind if I take off and we’ll pick it up tomorrow?
After three days of this he had a sit down talk with me that “people had noticed” me leaving and they had a strict 8 hours in office policy there. I was completely dumbfounded by this, that he himself had said I was cool to leave and had fully admitted there was nothing for me to do, but also proved he was not the least bit willing to confront his boss, even with something as small as “well he had nothing to do”.
Needless to say it did not work out, and I’m much happier at another company that treats me like a grown up
for a couple years I was in a management position, doing half of a manager’s job (we didn’t have somebody for that position so it was half me and half my boss who is the owner)
anyways I always treated people like adults from the start, and my best two employees are the juniors I brought up from basically no experience. except for knowledge, they’re honestly better than a couple of my seniors (and they’re both intermediate now because of their reliability). I hate that I actually have to treat some of my seniors as children because otherwise they miss stuff / don’t know what to do. like dude you have ten years in the industry, you should know if you change [this] then you need to recheck [that]
and part of treating people like adults was judging them on results, not time at desk. which was made quite a bit more necessary due to the fact that I was managing an in-office team remotely haha
crazy how treating competent people like adults will get you great results, though. almost like if they care, they’ll do good work. unfortunately it seems the company has outgrown that now