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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1036349" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>My wife is a Human Resources and finance manager at a manufacturing company. In addition to managing the books, she is responsible for setting company policy, hiring people, evaluting their performance, writing disciplinary letters and terminating employees for cause. So believe it or not, I really <em>can</em> see things from a management perspective because I get to hear <em>her</em> side of it almost every night after work.</p><p></p><p>I dont have a problem being told what to do, and I accept the fact that my boss is the boss and that I have to follow instructions even when I dont like them or agree with them. For the most part, I usually just smile, shut up, and do what Im told without complaining.</p><p></p><p>Where I do tend to get a bit "vocal"...is when I am held to an arbitrary or ridiculously high standard of performance by a management person or team that <em>cannot possibly live up to that standard themselves. </em>In other words...get your <em>own</em> sh&t together before you start getting up into mine. I also have no respect for a corporate culture that does not allow the smart, competent and informed local management people (who make up 95% of this company) to <em>make a decision </em>about even the most basic operational issues. Problems are part of life, but <em>self inflicted </em>problems caused by an overbearing, paranoid, metrics-obsessed, top-heavy, fear-based management structure are particularly hard for me to come to terms with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1036349, member: 14668"] My wife is a Human Resources and finance manager at a manufacturing company. In addition to managing the books, she is responsible for setting company policy, hiring people, evaluting their performance, writing disciplinary letters and terminating employees for cause. So believe it or not, I really [I]can[/I] see things from a management perspective because I get to hear [I]her[/I] side of it almost every night after work. I dont have a problem being told what to do, and I accept the fact that my boss is the boss and that I have to follow instructions even when I dont like them or agree with them. For the most part, I usually just smile, shut up, and do what Im told without complaining. Where I do tend to get a bit "vocal"...is when I am held to an arbitrary or ridiculously high standard of performance by a management person or team that [I]cannot possibly live up to that standard themselves. [/I]In other words...get your [I]own[/I] sh&t together before you start getting up into mine. I also have no respect for a corporate culture that does not allow the smart, competent and informed local management people (who make up 95% of this company) to [I]make a decision [/I]about even the most basic operational issues. Problems are part of life, but [I]self inflicted [/I]problems caused by an overbearing, paranoid, metrics-obsessed, top-heavy, fear-based management structure are particularly hard for me to come to terms with. [/QUOTE]
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