Why is the burden of “not letting the team down” always placed on overworked employees, instead of on management to hire enough people?
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Why is the burden of “not letting the team down” always placed on overworked employees, instead of on management to hire enough people?
@Strandjunker Maybe it's the lowest-hanging fruit when it comes to shifting responsibility. It's too convenient, and those who should actually be taking responsibility, those who control the leverage, pass it down the chain.
Those who have power and are willing to abuse it for their own benefit are usually the most self-serving.
At least, that seems to be the rule. -
Why is the burden of “not letting the team down” always placed on overworked employees, instead of on management to hire enough people?
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Why is the burden of “not letting the team down” always placed on overworked employees, instead of on management to hire enough people?
@Strandjunker I regularly ask Teams what the biggest time sinks are. The answer is always the same: Salesforce, Confluence, Jira, and so on.
When companies buy software to introduce micromanagement because they’ve completely lost track of what their 70+ employees actually do all day, it’s only natural that at least half of them start using ChatGPT or Claude to write code, documentation, and project comments for this kind of SW.
People are sick and tired of Bloatware bullshit.
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Why is the burden of “not letting the team down” always placed on overworked employees, instead of on management to hire enough people?
@Strandjunker the former controlled by your manager, while the latter is controlled by the finance team
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Why is the burden of “not letting the team down” always placed on overworked employees, instead of on management to hire enough people?
Ask the union-busting, NDA-happy shitty dickholes that own Natural Grocers.
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@Strandjunker Maybe it's the lowest-hanging fruit when it comes to shifting responsibility. It's too convenient, and those who should actually be taking responsibility, those who control the leverage, pass it down the chain.
Those who have power and are willing to abuse it for their own benefit are usually the most self-serving.
At least, that seems to be the rule.@sherold @Strandjunker
Freelancer’s response to being asked to do work on speculation comes to mind
https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1266659549/vulgar-leopard-print-pinsbadges-1-12 -
Why is the burden of “not letting the team down” always placed on overworked employees, instead of on management to hire enough people?
@Strandjunker rostering is hard. Leaning on people's good will is easy
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Why is the burden of “not letting the team down” always placed on overworked employees, instead of on management to hire enough people?
I once had a conversation with a boss that went like this:
Boss: Why isn't all the work getting done?
Me: You've rostered one person to do two jobs.
Boss: I don't want your excuses, I want the work done!
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Why is the burden of “not letting the team down” always placed on overworked employees, instead of on management to hire enough people?
@Strandjunker because bosses are seldom leaders!
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Why is the burden of “not letting the team down” always placed on overworked employees, instead of on management to hire enough people?
if you can't afford, to or simply won't, pay an adequate staff enough to support their good lives, you have an egregiously poor business model and need to rethink or do the work yourself
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Why is the burden of “not letting the team down” always placed on overworked employees, instead of on management to hire enough people?
@Strandjunker You could be like me and point out the "common point of failure," which is "management not managing people or projects effectively." But then the management gives you a poor review despite you scoring "beyond expectations" on all the line items of the review...
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I once had a conversation with a boss that went like this:
Boss: Why isn't all the work getting done?
Me: You've rostered one person to do two jobs.
Boss: I don't want your excuses, I want the work done!
@davidtheeviloverlord @Strandjunker
"That's not an excuse; it's a reason."
"What's the difference?!"
"Much like you, excuses don't have to be tied to reality. Reasons are real." -
Why is the burden of “not letting the team down” always placed on overworked employees, instead of on management to hire enough people?
@Strandjunker That, Andrea, is the crux of the catastrophic failure of the Motorola Semiconductor Sector where hourly wage earners have more job perks than middle management, which took all the blame for the failures of upper management. Today's Motorola is that in name only because its failed ass got bought out. -
Why is the burden of “not letting the team down” always placed on overworked employees, instead of on management to hire enough people?
@Strandjunker because
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Why is the burden of “not letting the team down” always placed on overworked employees, instead of on management to hire enough people?
@Strandjunker But the coach is part of the team, not so?
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@Strandjunker But the coach is part of the team, not so?
A manager should be a facilitator, not a punisher.@Strandjunker @bouriquet Theoretically that's correct, but in a large corporation you have the team manager being given a nearly impossible assignment by the branch manager, who did that because he in turn was given a nearly impossible assignment by the sector manager who told the corporate manager he could pull off the impossible. The result ain't pretty. -
Why is the burden of “not letting the team down” always placed on overworked employees, instead of on management to hire enough people?
@Strandjunker Being managed implies that you are still considered as an asset but it is unclear if you are classified as one-time-use goods or not
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Why is the burden of “not letting the team down” always placed on overworked employees, instead of on management to hire enough people?
Why is the burden of lost jobs placed on workers instead of the management who can’t manage?
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Why is the burden of “not letting the team down” always placed on overworked employees, instead of on management to hire enough people?
@Strandjunker A speech I give to new members of my team on the regular:
"I don't get to tell you how to use your time off any more than I get to tell you how to spend your paycheck. You earned that; it's yours. If your taking time off — to visit your family, see a new country, or just catch a breather — leaves me with scheduling problems, that's not a *you* problem, that's a *me* problem, and *I* need to figure out how to keep the joint running." -
Why is the burden of “not letting the team down” always placed on overworked employees, instead of on management to hire enough people?
@Strandjunker
Because in Merika we don't want our poor bosses to not be able to afford the big house or the yacht. That would be such a shame if that happened. So instead we must all work ourselves sick.
