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The workers I supervise are out of control
I am supposed to be managing 15 people, but they are crazy and unmanageable. What am I to do?
By Cary Tennis [2007-10-01]

  • What sad lives...

    In reading the LWs letter and many of the responses, I am struck by how much scorn people have for each other.

    Here's a news flash: managing people is a job for those who can DEAL with people! If you have seething contempt for people you see as "stupid," you are in the wrong job. Management is not for the rigid.

    I chalk it up to a business hierarchy which rewards financially those who move "up the ladder" to having direct reports. You get a lot of people who want the money but have no skills with or interest in people who are different from them.

    To say that analyzing people is not your job is ludicrous. Understanding those you hope to lead is 80% of your job. That's what you get paid for, not to sit around and whine "they're stupid and unmotivated!" If you're not up to the challenge, do society a favor and get a different job where you don't have to manage anyone. The same goes for the rest of the contemptuous assholes in the letters.

    -- cd4928
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    Monday, October 1, 2007 05:38 AM
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