RE: Working later than the boss

["Condo, Candis" <ccondo -at- c-cor -dot- com>]

LOL 

I too was a benign dictator both as a manager and as a college-level
instructor. Definitely not a democracy. I did expect my staff to pick up
responsibilities I was too busy to do (attending endless meetings that
my staff did not want to attend) but I can't imagine asking them to stay
later than me unless I had an emergency. BUT, as I said before, I am
happily single and childfree although I do have to pick up my dog
occasionally from doggie-day care.

Can you imagine this: a manager asking a staff member to stay late
regularly so the manager could pick up the dog at doggie day care? No.
Wouldn't fly.

Candis

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From: techwr-l-bounces+ccondo=c-cor -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
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Of Gene Kim-Eng
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 1:28 AM
To: Janice Gelb; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Working later than the boss

At this point I am no longer speculating about Anonymous'
situation, I am replying to your view that it is somehow
"wrong" if someone paying you to do your job does less
work than you do.


When I manage people I'll go to the ends of the Earth
and fight windmills and dragons to get them what they
need to do their jobs and ensure that their efforts and 
achievements are recognized, and to do whatever I can 
to put myself in the path of anything stupid or harmful 
that upper management attempts to do to them.  They 
know that they can always come to me if they need 
my help in any of these areas.  But they also know 
that our organization chart illustrates the fact that we 
are a benign dicatorship, not an egalitarian democracy,
and that I am their manager and not their den mother.
Anybody who expects a manager to lead the group
in choruses of Kumbaya had probably best pass on
any openings I post.

Gene Kim-Eng


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