[quote]batman730 wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
Okay, one more post and I’ll drop it. I’ll even us my own office as an example.
We have person A and Person B.
Person A is like a 47 year old version of OP. Fucking psyco to the max, married to his job, you need to be chained to you desk and piss in a bucket or you aren’t dedicated enough. Is, without question, the Might Mouse of the firm, as in if he didn’t work there we’d never get anything accomplished.
Person A is very good at his job, puts in max effort and does excellent work. However, Person A sucks with clients, because he doesn’t know how to act and relate on a human level to normal people. Person A’s attitude towards work is a total and absolute fucking cancer for moral. God it’s fucking annoying. I’m literally the only person in damn near twenty years that’s been able to work with him. Through time I’ve become a buffer between him and, well pretty much anyone else, lmao, whenever possible. How was I able to do that? because I know when to turn it on and turn it off, and getting staff to laugh and enjoy their life when you’re asking them to work 8am until 1am six months out of every year is a lot better than acting like a fucking nutcase about “productivity”.
In fact, acting like that nutjob about “productivity” is counter productive. It communicates a lack of trust, lack of respect and a general air of massive insecure pussy. People don’t like working for massive insecure pussys. So all this flipping the fuck out actually makes people slack even more, and not even begin to feel guilty.
But again, someone who’s been at the firm a year (lmao) would think I was a “slacker” in a lot of ways too. I laugh and joke around, I send people out for coffees, and beers. Sometimes i call it a night and bring the staff down the street for a drink. I’ll tell jokes, I’ll get a conversation going about current events. And GASP I might have a non-OP approved webpage open once in awhile. He’d call me a slacker, but… I’d make triple what he does, and be complimented by the people that sign paychecks for my calm, rational dedication and demeanor. And, end of the year I get more done billing 2k hours as a couple people do billing 2200-2400…
Now, Person B… He is apparently a lot like dude OP is describing. Fucking guy flat out naps at his desk in the afternoon. And good lord is it irritating when he tries to give people the “talk” about “productivity”. But, you know what I don’t have to do when he walks away form a staff? Walk over and make sure they are good to go, and still able to be productive, as he isn’t physco. He can be hypocritical, and an asshole, and I have to smooth over the asshole times, but people will flat out say “thank god he isn’t a phsyco like Person A.” Yes, people would rather work for the Max Slacker than Mr Super Worker Man.
Think about the beds you want to make OP. And if you act anything like you have in this thread at work, you could accomplish a lot more if you learn how to take pride in what you do, but also be able to down shift, and recognize there is more to both life, and being part of a team than acting like an uptight asshole and productivity police. Managing people isn’t easy. And a touch of “slacking” here and there is significantly more beneficial for the team than stomping around like Hitler’s Yes Man.
Or you know, you can ignore all this, and figure it out for yourself 15-20 years from now when no one respects you and complains to ownership about you behind your back. Or you have a heart attack, or you actually rage and “smash a face into a keyboard”… But you’ll be super productive, so all is right in the world right?
Jesus when you have teenagers your head is going to straight explode. [/quote]
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Indeed.
