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