I'm a VP with a biggish company. Every year, the first week of the year the senior managers from across the US fly somewhere warm, play golf, shoot guns, sit by a beach or a pool, get wasted, ham handedly try to cheat on their spouses and have meetings about how to take more of your labor value. Obviously due to covid that won't be a thing this year, and instead the conferences are virtual, so me, and a couple hundred other ghouls who already make six figures + got shipped huge snack boxes, boxes of booze and received $500 credits at door dash. The CEO just gave his kickoff presentation and, with all the money they saved from not paying for travel they're giving away ten k worth of Amazon gift cards and a brand new Tesla. So just who is eligible for this windfall, you ask. The hundreds of warehouse workers who couldn't work from home, the truck drivers out on the road, installers and sales people exposing themselves to covid every day? Nah, us couple hundred ghouls already making incomes in the top 5%. Can I just guillotine myself and be done with this already?

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    I've found simply ignoring higher management directives (like screenshot/webcam-taking timetracking), lying about it, and letting my team members work as happily and comfortably as possible gets me higher productivity and more promotions, while the MBA ghouls I've found myself around flail wildly wondering why turnover is up 200% and productivity is down.

    • InnuendOwO [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      there is not one job i have worked at where the job wouldn't be better by having my management just stop doing literally anything unless i ask them for help first

      tyfys

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        I don't really care if they're productive as long as I'm not fired and no one bothers me so I can keep posting. That's my management strategy, "Do whatever needs to be done so I can minimise human contact. If something is going to make me have to talk to people if it gets worse, tell me what I need to do to stop it"

        If that means they can play Eve Online for 30 hours a week, cool. If it means they disappear to a beach for a week without holiday approval, cool.

        A maximally effective manager is one that doesn't need to do any work. Managerial labour is a symptom of a workplace flaw.