Basically, I don't want to leave this company, but I want to leave the bad manager. This is a man who is tactless and lacks some basic communication skills. He is always ready to criticize, but the problem is that he doesn't know my job at all. How can a man who doesn’t know the job be so confident when he tells me how to do my work?
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It is really disheartening to hear that you are in this situation, however, there's great news after this....companies are hiring (may even pay you more). Starting over after you've built a steady career at any company is scary but waiting for your situation to get better on its own is even scarier. In the meantime, while you decide what your next move will be, document...document...document. This will be all you have when or if your issues go to HR. If your manager's manager won't listen, you have the right to go above both of them. Does this take courage? Yes. Might they try to retaliate? Abso- freaking-lutely, but that is where you do not take your foot off the gas, have all communications between you and management in writing (follow up verbal conversations with emails too) and know that you have a solid skillset that other managers would be happy to employ. How do i know this??!! I have had the type of manager you speak of AND, I am a previous leader at Centene and have had to follow the very steps I've just written. It's not easy, but I sleep so much better at night knowing I spoke up for myself and make literally 30% more than I did there, and I had nooooo complaint about my salary then :)
Good Luck-
Widget maker commenter: disagree. And I’m a manager. Yes, you need to do the things you say. But if a manager literally knows absolutely nothing about the general field that the employee is working in (and I see that all over the place at Centene due to too much growth/acquisition etc.) they really won’t be able to speak the same language or assess whether what an employee is saying is needed is true. If they can’t do that then they won’t know how to do the other things like figure out how that person’s time can be best spent, because they won’t know. Managing is a job in and of itself, but I think it’s somewhere between best widget maker and not knowing what a widget is. ;-)
@2xty+1fijEWbP "OK...You're the "Leader" of an expedition, how effective are you going to be as the leader if you can't read a fu----g map?" That is the problem - lack of effective leadership but I'm sure you're doing amazing, sweetie.
To the comment, "the best widget maker gets promoted to manager of the other widgetmakers" is a relic of the past?
OK...You're the "Leader" of an expedition, how effective are you going to be as the leader if you can't read a fu----g map?
Spoken like a typical manager. If leadership only needs to know how to lead, we are all lost. P.S. What's the newest management book you're all quoting from until lately?
It's called the "good ol boys club". Uneducated privileged and lazy.
No one is perfect but there are other employers who do not practice this kind of ignorance who actually try to do the right thing. You have to decide you are worth better.
You won't like hearing this, but the concept of "the best widget maker gets promoted to manager of the other widgetmakers" is a relic of the past. Leadership doesn't need to know the details of what you do, only to know what your blockers are and to be your advocate in corporate issues like where your time is going.
Because he’s supported by higher ups who don’t even know your job either. Smdh