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Briela
03-22-2003, 12:07 AM
Never give me work in the morning. Always wait until 4:00 pm and then bring it to me. The challenge of a deadline is refreshing.

If it\'s really a \"rush job\", run in and interrupt me every 10 minutes inquire how it\'s going. That helps. Or even better, hover behind me, advising me at every keystroke.

Always leave without telling anyone where you\'re going. It gives me a chance to be creative when someone asks where you are.

If my arms are full of papers, boxes, books, or supplies, don\'t open the door for me. I need to learn to function as a paraplegic and opening doors with no arms is good training.

If you give me more than one job to do, don\'t tell me which is the priority. I am psychic. ( Or psycho in some of our cases...)

Do your best to keep me late. I adore this office and really have nowhere to go or anything to do. I have no life beyond work.

If a job I do pleases you, keep it a secret. If that gets out, it could mean a promotion.

If you don\'t like my work, tell everyone. I like my name to be popular in conversations. I was born to be whipped.

If you have special instructions for a job, don\'t write them down. In fact, save them until the job is almost done. No use confusing me with useful information.

Never introduce me to the people you\'re with. I have no right to know anything. In the corporate food chain, I am plankton. When you refer to them later, my shrewd deductions will identify them.

Tell me all your little problems. No one else has any and it\'s nice to know someone is less fortunate. I especially like the story about having to pay so much in taxes on the new BMW, house, etc.

Wait until my yearly review and THEN tell me what my goals SHOULD have been. Give me a mediocre performance rating with a cost of living increase. I\'m not here for the money anyway.

Gerund
03-22-2003, 09:21 AM
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If it\'s really a \"rush job\", run in and interrupt me every 10 minutes inquire how it\'s going. That helps. Or even better, hover behind me, advising me at every keystroke.
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There\'s a corrollary:

After bringing me the rush job late in the afternoon, and implying that I should stay late to finish it that night, ignore the finished product for 3 days. On the 4th day, suddenly \"remember\" the super-urgent project, panic, and enlist my help to locate it on your desk, where it\'s been since I finished it the first night.

Briela
03-22-2003, 03:26 PM
/ubbthreads/images/icons/laugh.gif Too true!

Gerund
03-23-2003, 08:38 PM
Yep, that\'s why since I\'ve had my own employee, I give her an estimate of when I\'ll actually need something when I give her a project. All duties are not urgent.

**DONOTDELETE**
03-23-2003, 09:02 PM
The three questions you ask the second the work is given to you: 1. what is the client/matter number, 2. when do you need it by, 3. who gets the copies.

Saves so much trouble right up front if you train your boss to give you the information you need when he gives you the assignment.

Briela
03-24-2003, 03:40 PM
Actually, I don\'t have that problem since I run my own research. Those that apply to my situation are more like:

<<If a job I do pleases you, keep it a secret. If that gets out, it could mean a promotion.>>

<<Never introduce me to the people you\'re with. I have no right to know anything. In the corporate food chain, I am plankton. When you refer to them later, my shrewd deductions will identify them.>>

<<Tell me all your little problems. No one else has any and it\'s nice to know someone is less fortunate. I especially like the story about having to pay so much in taxes on the new BMW, house, etc. >>

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