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Couldn't agree more. Surveys show that most employees quit their jobs because of their supervisor and/or manager, and not because of money. I think supervisors and managers are put there without proper training and they are chosen for the wrong skills, and when they are put there they become authoritative and closed minded to others who are low in rank. For example, I have a supervisor who is very detached from her employees at the personal level. She doesn't know anything about them, and she doesn't want to. She would walk in on you in the kitchen and not even acknowledge you, not even with a short look and a nod , let alone strike a small talk, yet when it's time to distribute tasks under the manager's eyes, she is polite and greeting you ... etc. It's difficult to reconcile the two faces. I feel she's using me as a means like a robot without proper acknowledgment to me as a human being first. Even when I finish tasks, she doesn't thank me. Just "here is your next task" ... etc
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I'm glad you liked that job. Good jobs are hard to come by. I like the job I'm in right now, the job itself is perfectly fine. I just don't care for my coworkers and how cliquy and exclusive they are.
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One thing I've observed is that people are more willing to talk about the happy stuff that is happening in their lives. Like weddings, graduations, other special events. It's when things get bad when people tend to clam up and say they are just going through personal issues. I'm more like that as well. In the rare times I do open up, I'm more willing to talk about the good stuff and hide the bad. I even keep funerals to myself. Keeping things completely work related can create awkwardness, which seems to be the case at your previous job. |
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I worked for a very small, close-knit family-run organization once and talk about feeling like an outsider. I was not a part of the family. The two other employees (part-time) were orphans that this family kind of took in as their own. So I was the outsider and it was really uncomfortable for me. I lasted one year in that job. It was my very first office job in my twenties. It was a lonely experience, so I feel for you. __________________ "Twenty-five years and my life is still trying to get up that great big hill of hope for a destination" ~4 Non Blondes |
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Your supervisor sounds contradictory and yes, robotic. How can a manager ignore the human element of relating to their employees? That's not a good leader in my opinion - to just be a taskmaster and nothing more. A good leader inspires and motivates their employees - and should be approachable. And that involves also being able to relate to them on the human level. So many leaders are inept in their roles. I think every manager should be required to take a management class. One boss I had was SO terrible, all of us employees approached our union president with a list of legitimate gripes. As a result, the company required that our boss take a leadership course. I left the organization before seeing the results of that course. __________________ "Twenty-five years and my life is still trying to get up that great big hill of hope for a destination" ~4 Non Blondes |
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True. This is completely absent in the management team. They don't care to cultivate their employees and build them up. They just monitor what they do and make decisions with no real-time feedback for improvement, and when I ask for a feedback, I am told that they will let me know if they are not happy with something!!
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Yep I totally agree. Either that or they treat me like I’m stupid or like something is wrong with me.
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Ugh - that's not right. Being older doesn't give a person the right to treat someone younger as though they're stupid. That's really annoying. Maybe they're stupid, lol.
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