Stupid dumb managers and team leaders
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It doesn’t seem to matter how straightforward you make a process, or how foolproof you think the system you have developed is. There is always a manager out there who takes it upon themselves to throw a spanner in the works and do it their own way regardless of the guidelines you set out for them. I'm pretty sure that cleaning up after them wasn't in my job description and I do not suffer fools gladly! |
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I’ve got a pretty mundane job these days, but it is occasionally brightened up by some of the stupid things those in a position of some authority do. These so called team leaders and managers are looking after a team of people, but it would seem that they are basically incapable of following a few simple rules to get a job done. These rules are designed to make my job straightforward and reduce the chances of making mistakes with the data. When they decide to do their own thing, it gives me a whole load more work to do to sort out the mess. Why can’t they just follow the procedures that I set out? It’s really not that difficult! |
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Okay, just to clarify things a bit, I receive a number of spreadsheets each week containing basic data such as employee numbers and dates. I simply transfer this information into a database so that someone somewhere can run a report. No problem you might think. Anyway, last year the format of these spreadsheets was agreed by all parties and the managers and team members were duly sent out a copy with very specific instructions as to what was expected of them. We’re talking about 3 simple columns here on one worksheet, so it’s pretty hard to screw up. To date at least a quarter of the returned sheets have to be amended in some form or other. They either put useless comments in the fields, or leave out dates all together. Sometimes they do both. I really don’t care that such and such wasn’t in that day and you don’t know the dates. Just send me ‘good data’ in the format we requested or send nothing at all! It saddens me to think that most managerial staff get paid way more than technical and administrative staff when clearly so many of them do not have any common sense and think that if they don’t like the way something is done, they can change it whenever they like. |
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I'm absolutely certain that you enjoy making their workshifts as miserable as possible whilst feeding your ego.
I bet you used to bully other kids in school and sucked up to the PE teacher so you could be on the 'team'. F*** Off.
I have just read the above gripe about "Stupid Managers" etc. Well of the twenty three staff I have I would say about four or five of them can work without any supervision at all. As for the rest? Well some of them are not capable of wiping their own backsides without some sort of help. Half of them cannot manage to perform the simple function of opening boxes and placing the contents on a shelf without constant supervision. Most of them are always Losing their case-cutters or gloves and moaning their heads off to have them replaced. When I cannot replace the items it"s always my fault, never theirs.
So if anyone starts off about "stupid managers" or "stupid supervisors" they should first think about two things.
1. Have they ever had the courage to take on a role of higher responsibility?
2. Can they work effectively and independently without supervision?
They used to turn out the type of drivel that you have been kind enough to share with us. It would be laughable if it weren't for the fact that people like these had the power to determine the professional development and remuneration of people who were in every way their superiors.
If this smacks of jealousy (no doubt my lovely new friend Chloe if she reads this will tell me I have 'anger management issues') then I can assure you there is no jealousy at all. I left the company with an excellent package and am now master of my own time, destiny, and income. Who's jealous now? ..... the managers and directors I left behind who are still trapped on the treadmill!
Mud Grinder, you have my sympathy, I've been there, and I hope you can get out. On the other hand you only have 3 years or so to go to retirement, I had a lot more.
You say the manager is a "remote one working in another country".
Is English his second language? The appaling drivel he writes certainly suggests this.
Jim needs to improve regarding associating and correctly
categorizing knowledge items to customer problems. My
expectation would be that at least 50% of the problems closed
with solution would have provided an associated knowledge item
attached which is categorized as ...
If there's anyone aged 62 out there who needs to "improve" please let me know. Otherwise this is the kind of claptrap I got in school reports 50 years ago.
My manager, a remote one working in another country, did not know I was a graduate.
Brunt-Bearer - 14-Dec-08 11:41
Brunt-Bearer - 14-Dec-08 09:54
Our manager says it is not his responsibility to make us happy in our work. If we are not happy it is our own fault he says.
Our job is technical highly skilled job, but we have been told that that is not the most important aspect of the work, in spite of the fact that it is and central to our performance. We will not be measured on the significance technical assistance we provide customers, rather more on what they thought of us as people.
Our manager refuses to discuss the efficacy of the changes the organisation made to our work programme this year with us. He says he can do nothing about them and that we have to work them willy-nilly. And there is no point trying to discuss them with him. Just get on with the job.
Every week our manager takes one of our current projects from each of our queues and goes through it with a fine toothcomb just to check whether we have followed company procedure to the letter. If we have not literally followed this to the letter he notes this and tells us off. This takes two and half hours, time we have to make up out of our own time.
There will be no pay rises this year. Our statistics are so poor we don't deserve them. We have no union.
There will be no Christmas bonuses or party.
I can't wait to leave. These people are destroyers of the national wealth.
Brunt-Bearer - 13-Dec-08 11:43
I was a middle manager and had done the jobs. of the staff that I managed but I consulted them about changes to work and used their ideas when appropriate. That way the job got done efficiently and most of us were as happy as workers could be.
As John says... managers being incapable of following a few instructions, no doubt they expect everyone else to wipe they're @arse for them. Let's hope the global recession etc. lands a few of them on the dole queue (You too Equitable joe, since you have such a high level of disdain for mere data entry staff... perhaps some of that kind of work might help you adjust your attitude!).
There were no forms by the way, badly designed or otherwise. We just needed simple information, three columns, three pieces of data - a name, a date and a course code. Really hard to screw up you would have thought.
Luckily, I enjoy the days and nights without dealing with idiots any more. Hey, I'm not rich but I'm sooo much happier because everything I do is for my benefit now and I don't have to train monkeys anymore!
Those who can, do. Those who can't, manage. Think about it.
Get in the real world. - 9-Apr-08 22:29
If the original griper does not understand this, they will remain an inconsequential cog in someone else's grinding machine for the rest of their working life.





