I know a manger that works at FB, I know him and he is a friend. Let me just say, he is the worst, a real piece of horse @$@# as a manager. I am thankful I have never had to work for this man. As a friend his is fine, but in a work place, the man is the worst! Why FB keeps this man on the job is beyond reason. You should hear what he actually thinks about his direct reports! I sit there and listen to him talk about his direct reports and think, MY GOD... Only if FB and his direct reports really knew what this man thinks of it all he'd be in it deep, so deep he would never see the sunshine ever again. But somehow this man is in charge and has direct reports! Sick, just plan sick! And the funny thing is every company the man worked for before going to FB FAILED and I mean FAILED hard! No wonder FB is in trouble with people like this guy working for them, milking the system for every $$$
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I am the OP... well let my just say this: I have know this person for many, many years. I have told this person to his face that I would never want to work for him if it was the last job on earth. He knows why too. There is a difference between a professional relationship and a friendship. I call it the way I see it and I have not ratted him out as he has in fact laughed at the fact he is getting over on FB to many people. As a friend and an old classmate of mine, we get on fine and everything I have said here I have said to his face... as I said, there is a big diff in working for someone and having a friendship with a person. Being that I myself managed 26 people I am NOT friends with any of them, not one of them. I am their boss, not their friend.
Nice story bro...
Are you sure you are a fine friend? Does your “friend” know what you think about him? Friends don’t talk about friends this way
How could he be fine as a friend if he talks like that to you? Man, you should choose more carefully your friends.
As a friend his is fine ...but You should hear what he actually thinks about his direct reports! I sit there and listen to him talk about his direct reports and think, MY GOD..
I have a good, very close friend but I would never work for her, ever... her professional life is a sh.....i.....tshow. Clueless in a professional capacity.
reminds me of a lesson I learned a few years ago when I hired a guy because he had a degree from yale. here I was under the impression that ivy leaguers would be intelligent enough to make sound decisions and solve problems effectively.
long story short, he turned out to be one of the worst hires I've ever made and lasted barely a year before I had to let him go. he was so appalled that I had the audacity to fire him that he spent the next several months dragging the company and his coworkers online until we sent a nice legal document advising him of the consequences should he continue. this man truly felt he was above everyone else and that his own failures were due solely to the shortcomings of others.
I believe this is the culture of many corporate managers who are the products of unwarranted self esteem, and am skeptical of whether these types of people actually do make fine friends.
I'd be willing to wager that a person who is "fine as a friend" who also plays dirty politics and talks behind the backs of people over whom he has power is actually not much good as a friend at all.