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Boss' Day Isn't Picnic
I just want to remind everyone that putting up with crap isn't all one sided in a work place. I am a Manufacturing Supervisor for a fortune 500 company in PA and I've had my share of nightmares and whiners. I sometimes feel that I am a kindergarten teacher instead of a supervisor of grown men and woman. I started at the bottom of my company as a "regular" employee and worked my way up over the last 11 years, so I know all about hard work and determination. I just wish that some of these people could spend a day in their boss's shoes, listening to complaints and dealing with people who want a paycheck for nothing. Don't get me wrong, I have some really great employees too. I just wanted to remind everyone that we all have our faults as well as our strengths and we all have our own problems. Some may call me an a-hole, but I put up with some pretty big ones myself. Just try to put yourself in someone else's shoes for a change.
It is great that you starting from below & worked you way up for 11 years, you must have seen & heard it all.
Sometimes, people who start from the bottom, when they get to the top, they have no consideration for lower employees, it gets to their head! Not all bosses are a-holes but in your lifetime, you will deal with these type of ruthless supervisors that are way up in their bosses b….s. brown nosers that belittle the employees to try to look good for the real bosses.
GOD I can so relate to you… I have worked up into my position as well. It’s no picnic, it’s something everyday and don’t try to fix an issue for them because tomorrow they’ll be complaining about that. Then the garbage you have to put up with from upper management (who just look down on you) and then try to take that information back to your own staff and put a positive spin on it, it’s impossible. I have one employee who throws herself down in the breakroom and starts screaming and crying like a three-year old having a tantrum because something did not go her way. (This is the honest truth!) Arms moving, legs thrashing.. OMG she is nuts!
I do feel sorry for the people who get treated like crap by their bosses… but believe me it’s not easy… middle management is the twelveth level of hell. Thanks for reading :)
I wish you’d all stop whingeing. Some employees do have a legitimate reason to complain to their bosses. You have to listen to them, it’s your job. If you don’t and merely write them off as whingers, you could end up in hot water yourself, even with a law suit.
I’m middle management myself – and no walk-over either, but I value my employees views, and they’ll respect you more if you take time out to listen to them , even if you don’t agree with what they’re saying. It’s a big part of your job and why you are in management – so take the responsibility.
Two ways and all that.
While I agree that it’s not easy to be the boss, it’s a lot easier to be the boss than to work for an awful one. And you generally get paid a lot more than the folks who put up with the most crap.
Your life isn’t easy, but I think YOU’D stop whining if you had to do front-line work for a psychopath for even half a day.
It would be poor logic to DISagree with this posting. There are free-loaders and lazy asses in every industry.
I also understand business. Business includes the execs leveraging their time and even goes as far as to abuse that leveraging practise.
Employees want job security. Sometimes I've understood that in shaky circumstances where people were being laid off / term'd, I retained my job and so at some level, I felt secure cuz i still HAD a job.
But employees view "job security" very differently.
When people get power, their first thought is to use it, abuse it and get more of it. This is the same in the work place.
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