I'm usually not interested, that is, I'm not a person who monitors how hard others work, that's not my job. However, pretenders start to be my problem when their laziness starts to affect my work. Are managers here actually protecting pretenders and slackers? That's the impression I got.
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I like to pretend. Its easy. My team leader only comes in the office one day every two weeks. Thats the day i push myself and then ask for overtime.
I dunno... sounds a lot like starting a sentence with, "You know I'm not a r*c!st, but..." Probably might have to reconsider the premise.
Great Post one of the best I have read in years, work on your acting skills - try not to let your past work ethic get in the way.
eg. Our Prime Minister has a degree in Theatre Arts
Enjoy your life - learn from your people leaders how to react to situations don't DON'T loose your self.
In the end always let ENB make the first/final move.
Same with any company.
Finally an AP post that actually made me laugh.
Agree 100% with the last reply. Managers coasting on their Supervisors who in turn just coast on their subordinates.
most managers are pretenders without real knowledge of their team/group.
this is really unfortunate as they don't help their employees in there daily work,
Just saying
Asset Performance ain't pretenders. We are the fiscal mastermind and optimization though leaders of LP. Without us LP would be a bunch of mindless button pushing monkeys running a pipeline without any objective or direction
I have witnessed many of them behave like that. If a manager is not measuring each individual's output, there are people out there that will take full advantage of that and do much less than others. If they are the charming type and good at befriending people they may get cozy with the manager and even become friends with them. At that point dont even think about complaining about the person not pulling their weight. Even though you would be in the right, it will backfire on you.
I have seen "leaders" with individuals on their team that were very kind, hard working, knowledgeable, intelligent who had great skills, and were treated like $hit. Any ideas they brought to the table were either squashed or sidelined; and the person berated and humiliated, even though what was being suggested made a lot of sense and deserved at least consideration.
I have often questioned why this type of bad actor manager would behave this way and to me the most likely reason is survival. They probably feel threatened by people like that and they certainly don't want their own manager to discover this talent so they keep it hidden the best they can. If they feel really threatened they may even harass them hoping they will move to another group.
Its easy to pretend when you wfh 4 days a week.
Tell me about it. Just like the UCP.