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mynegation · 2020-10-25 23:24:03+00:00

I used to think that before I became a manager.

auserperson | karma 19 | avg karma 0.45 · | 2017-06-29 16:25:38+00:00

I've seen many managers think that way.

izacus | karma 26220 | avg karma 4.38 · | 2023-08-18 02:38:32

Well... were you ever a manager to actually know that?

itsmefaz | karma 206 | avg karma 1.45 · | 2020-09-29 05:21:06

you became a manager?

Breza | karma 212 | avg karma 0.29 · | 2023-12-07 12:23:25

I agree. Early in my career, I thought a manager was like a driving teacher, someone to help guide you and hit the brake when you're about to crash. Now that I'm a manager, I think of it more like being a snowplow; you wake up in the morning and you can get your job done thanks to the work that someone else is doing behind the scenes.

S4M | karma 3963 | avg karma 2.62 · | 2018-10-09 20:05:56+00:00

Are you a manager now?

llampx | karma 2691 | avg karma 1.52 · | 2021-05-12 17:51:21

I wonder about the kind of manager that actually thinks that.

GuiA | karma 20066 | avg karma 6.06 · | 2018-01-15 23:31:39

Indeed. I did not have a ~great~ manager until my 3rd or 4th job, and if I had known people like that existed before I certainly would not have stayed as long in some of the earlier jobs.

bkovitz | karma 830 | avg karma 2.97 · | 2010-01-30 20:30:11

I always thought management looked like a job I'd hate. Now I'm completely sure.

chrisweekly | karma 7226 | avg karma 2.17 · | 2019-11-08 13:08:45+00:00

If you're ever in a management position, I hope for your sake -- and your subordinates' -- you outgrow that notion.

giantg2 | karma 18870 | avg karma 1.42 · | 2022-03-28 19:50:19

They were a manager for a long time before that.

overgard | karma 10309 | avg karma 4.9 · | 2016-04-03 05:55:06+00:00

You sound like you are, or would be, a great manager. A lot of people never realize things like this in their entire careers.

A4ET8a8uTh0 | karma 5530 | avg karma 1.66 · | 2021-03-26 21:10:26+00:00

My first reaction was to disagree, but then I tried to remember the embodiment of 'not-ideal' manager and, in my mind at least, they are basically everything I am not, or at least not want to be.

alanfranz | karma 5520 | avg karma 7.51 · | 2023-12-05 08:05:38

If you think that’s all what a manager does, you had bad managers. People managers, I mean.

natalyarostova | karma 1941 | avg karma 3.2 · | 2019-01-06 12:09:30

I used to never want to be a manager. Now I'd rather be a manager than have someone incompetent and new tell me what to do. I think this is a common trope.

vanniv | karma 363 | avg karma 0.88 · | 2019-11-23 16:29:00

If you thought of your people as cogs while you were a manager, you clearly weren't very good at it.

cptcobalt | karma 1113 | avg karma 3.67 · | 2023-02-08 10:25:34

and good managers probably started out as bad managers until they figured it out!

gronne | karma 139 | avg karma 1.83 · | 2018-12-30 12:01:06+00:00

I thought that was the definition of a manager?

crististm | karma 1028 | avg karma 1.03 · | 2013-07-28 18:55:19

some managers seem to believe exactly this

x87678r | karma 1994 | avg karma 3.03 · | 2020-10-16 11:48:23

I used to think that then I burnt out. When the manager does nothing but the crap, the manager is going to leave. The proper way is to distribute the crap evenly.