It really is like babysitting grown children. Respect to all of you.
To all the managers of your respective fields.
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See my sign line.
Nope, I will NEVER be management again.
Throw me a set of blueprints and let me be.
I'll buy your stuff, you tell your people how to put it together.
"As The World Turns" got old very quickly.
Nope, I will NEVER be management again.
Throw me a set of blueprints and let me be.
I'll buy your stuff, you tell your people how to put it together.
"As The World Turns" got old very quickly.
I spent 34 years as the Parts Manager for a Toyota dealer. I had some really good help and some really bad help and age had nothing to do with the quality of the help. Glad to be retired!
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Maybe the best reason not to come to work for 3 days I’ve heard yet. “ A raccoon stole my cellphone and hid it under my house “. That’s an actual excuse given. I’m guessing he has huge holes in his house. I mean I know raccoons are tricky little guys.
My managment best excuse....i cant the weather is too bad....you live in town....they havent plowed my street yet...who worked for me last night...i did...you live 18 miles away...i know you dont have to tell me where i live
At this point when I work it as a manager, for the most part people follow my lead pretty well. I am more apt to have problems from upper management than from those who work for me. But, these days the uppers have decided that while my style might not be mainstream it is effective and let me do it my way.
Truth.
Luckily for me, it was only a few that were like that. The majority were mature adults. Nonetheless, those few make the entire job an exercise in frustration.
Try being a Captain and shift commander of a 2800 inmate facility...It is a nightmare of minute-by-minute decisions, dealing with poor STAFF decisions, legal issues, and mounds of paper and computer reports, documentation and crossing "t's"
I had a saying that I still occasionally use...." There's a lot of difficult people in prison....And then there's the inmates"
I had a saying that I still occasionally use...." There's a lot of difficult people in prison....And then there's the inmates"
Nanuk
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More like herding cats.
No. That’s only two dimensional. More like herding mosquitos.
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Best on the spot excuse I ever encountered. I walk over to the receiving cage on 3rd shift, which is unmanned. Note employee (not of that department) tucked around corner in chair, head down, eyes closed. I quietly sit down in front of him and note regular deep breathing and no movement at all. I quietly cough. Employee gives a slight jerk, obviously now awake, but does not move a muscle. 20-30 more seconds go by. Employee shrugs shoulders a bit, states “Amen” loudly, opens his eyes raises his head. I just burst out laughing.
Was management for 9 years.
Never again.
I don't have kids of my own, sure don't wanna manage other people's.
Never again.
I don't have kids of my own, sure don't wanna manage other people's.
Employee: Hey boss, I have a vision problem.
Boss: Yeah?
Employee: Can't see myself coming in today.
Boss: Yeah?
Employee: Can't see myself coming in today.
LVSteve
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I dabbled in management for about a year. None of the people involved were actually mine, but the money was under my control. I didn’t screw up, and I was glad to get back to hands on work.
Had a kid working for me fresh out of high school, told me he ran out of gas grabbing a part. I gave him 10 bucks and told him if he ever ran out again he had to give me the ten back. Then he got so sunburned it hurt to just look at him, That convinced me he was not really interested in the job due to testosterone overload affliction LOL.
Reminds me of the day I called in sick, told them my grandfather had died. Didn't tell them it was 4 years before I was born.
Most interesting reason I ever got for not coming in to work was, "The power is out and I can't figure out how to operate the manual garage door release." I pointed out to her that we paid her $1k per week (was many years back) to, among other things, use her brain. I strongly suggested that she figure it out and get to work. I also had a "my hair color job went sideways and my hair is now green." That actually worked due to a number of things including a requirement for no bizarre hair styles or colors. The most irritating I think though were payday drunks. Every month, the day after payday, you could count on them having flu symptoms.
