At least 10 times a day, Erika Becker, who works as a sales development manager at a technology company called Verkada, turns to her boss with questions. “Did I handle that correctly?” she asks. “What could I have done better?”
“It’s like if there’s something in my teeth, I want you to tell me,” she said. “Because I want to move up in my career.”
"I literally NEED to be micromanaged every second of my day or else I'll never become a useless parasitic middle manager!!!" :maybe-later-kiddo:
The economists [...] found that remote work enhanced the productivity of senior engineers, but it also reduced the amount of feedback that junior engineers received (in the form of comments on their code), and some of the junior engineers were more likely to quit the firm. The effects of remote work, in terms of declining feedback, were especially pronounced for female engineers.
"Damn, misogyny and elitism are a real problem in our workplace...and this is totally because our wage slaves aren't within the panopticon at all times! It's totally not structural or organizational or economic mode issues at all!" :liberalism:
“It’s what grandparents have been saying for a long time,” Ms. Emanuel, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, said in an interview this month. “Face-to-face meetings are very different from FaceTime.”
Just literal boomer shit in a supposedly "serious" article. New York Times, more like Poo Pork [Balls] Times
some are like this just because they aren't very smart or self driven at all. I feel like my gf(a manager) mentions how her subordinates need a lot more help than she ever did. Lot's of humans still need direction and guidance, we can't escape hierarchies completely. and some of us don't want to be decision makers. I have a chance to be a team lead at my job by im like meh.
I'm a working supervisor in my department and this drives me up a wall. It's totally fine and expected for new employees to have questions while they are learning, but after several months to a year you need to be confident enough to make your own decisions and take calculated risks. I make it very clear that I expect everyone to screw things up on a regular basis and that's much more preferable than me double checking every single thing they do. This isn't a hospital, no one dies from mistakes here, and I already have too much of my own work and my ADHD to worry about.
I think it just stems from people being traumatized by shitty managers in the past who rip them apart for every little mistake.
Edit: to be clear, these are not difficult decisions being made, more like our procedure is "if A, B, and C are true, then do D" and people are afraid to press the button for D without showing me their A, B, and C.
i do think that is part of it. I think the other part is there are alot of people who don't really know how to learn, or never figured out in what way they learn best. I know i suck at auditory learning but I'm great at reading and learning so I take a lot of notes when I'm at a new job. I think people just don't know how to take notes. Unfortunately i'm plagued with a history BA(english minor) and then I got an IT degree cause history wasnt getting me a job so I just have way too much experience in going to school.
you are me.
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