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If you became manager over any of your past or present managers, would you work them as hard as they worked you?
The reason I ask is because I see former managers who stepped down or went on leave, only to end up becoming the subordinates of employees they used to manage. Its not karma. It just so happened the only place for them to go once they stepped down, or returned to the same company after a leave, was to a location ran by one, or more of their former subordinates.
As of yet, I haven't seen any of these former managers being pushed, pulled, or stretched to the same limits their former subordinated were. They usually have it easy, and are rarely asked to do more than their primary duties. And if they are asked to do a little more, its just that, a little more.
Here is my real world example. A former manager returned to the company, and there was only one area available for him to work. His manager, who used to be his former subordinate, let him come in and do his thing, and go home. He never asked him to come in early to lend a hand, if he was shorthanded, he never asked him to pitch in with the workload, and he never moved him from place to place and still expect him to get his work done. After the former manager received a promotion back into management [after I helped him see the big picture], I was asked to take his place. Guess who was asked to come in early to lend a hand, guess who was asked to pitch in with the workload when we were shorthanded, guess who was moved from place to place and still expected to get his work done. Truth be told, his manager asked him for help only once, and it was trivial help, nothing sweat-inducing or stressful. After a while, I finally called a meeting and spoke up to my manager's boss in his presence to let them know I was being spread to thin, meanwhile clocksuckers milked the clock, sucked the life out of the timeclock like vampires, and rode the clock like jockeys. Others played possum, and would play dead if asked to do more, only to have the hard workers pick up their slack. After they'd see the work assigned to someone else, they'd come back to life.
I would like to hear your answer to the question, and if so inclined, share your stories of former bosses living on easy street with their former subordinates.
-------------------- You must do what you feel is right, of course-Obi Wan Kenobi Posts: 2663 | Registered: Jan 2004
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Good motto I try to remember is, careful of the toes you step on today because they could be connected to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow.
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Nah, I wouldnt. I'm pretty fair. Even out the workload to execute the main objective. He may have been my boss in the past, but once we've clocked on, he's just a subordinate. No room to fulfill personal vendettas.
-------------------- "When this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit" - Dr Emmit L. Brown (Back To The Future) Posts: 7894 | Registered: Jan 2007
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