Pushy managers at work.....

Thoughts_Arrive

Need to be pushed off a cliff!

Jo

I've been an Owner Director for 12 years, and because I'm not pushy enough, those I employ have nearly costed me everything. I wish I was more pushy.

Thoughts_Arrive

Jo wrote:

I've been an Owner Director for 12 years, and because I'm not pushy enough, those I employ have nearly costed me everything. I wish I was more pushy.

This guy at my work is pushy and unreasonable.
He wants what he wants no matter what it takes or who he steps on.
Grrrr.

Jo

Thoughts_Arrive wrote:

Jo wrote:

I've been an Owner Director for 12 years, and because I'm not pushy enough, those I employ have nearly costed me everything. I wish I was more pushy.

This guy at my work is pushy and unreasonable.
He wants what he wants no matter what it takes or who he steps on.
Grrrr.

Yep. Thats what it takes. I hired enough losers who waste Time, Resorces, Super, Public Liability, Workers Comp and still the Job is behind schedule because they take an hour to have a 10min smoko, and then stand around waiting to be told what they need to do next. :roll:
Best thing you can do is be Head down and Bum Up and do what your Boss requests. You'll soon find He is not being Unreasonable, He just needs the job done to make the money to pay you with all the perks.
Hang in there and do your best, you may even get a promotion because the Boss needs someone Just Like You to fill a cushier job.

Thoughts_Arrive

This is what he is like at the moment....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc9zF8G2Pvc

Jo

OK. I watched that. Robert Deniro plays a good boss, apart from pummling someones head in.

Team effort achieves most.
In a business, you need all the workers to band together for the same common outcome. It is imperative that all members of the crew are working toward the same goal. Or else the business fails.
If Team effort is let down by 1 or 2 or 5 people, the Team is being let down, and every one who is in that team is unable to achieve the desired outcome.

By all means, if your boss hammers people in the head with baseball bats, thats clearly not good.

Team effort achieves most.

Thoughts_Arrive

I needed 15 stitches after we failed to meet our revenue forecast. jk.
Yeah we all tow our weight except one lazy girl spends too much time on facebook and the phone.

philthehip

Thoughts_Arrive wrote:

This is what he is like at the moment....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc9zF8G2Pvc

I am just like this Too many lazy little pricks who dont want to work for the team. Help your boss and you will get noticed.

mookeywrench

yep, nothing more frustrating than having to supervise people who have zero sense of urgency. It's as though they live in a world of slow motion. Then when you suggest that they should be picking up the pace due to time pressures, they get defensive and say that we're too pushy.

How can we be too pushy when this task has been completed plenty of times in the past with time to spare?

IwasBit10

mookeywrench wrote:

yep, nothing more frustrating than having to supervise people who have zero sense of urgency. It's as though they live in a world of slow motion. Then when you suggest that they should be picking up the pace due to time pressures, they get defensive and say that we're too pushy.

How can we be too pushy when this task has been completed plenty of times in the past with time to spare?

I hear ya. We have quarterly bonuses for our employees, and 40% of it is determined through an efficiency scale. At first, I thought this would solve those issues. Problem is, they are hourly employees, so they're getting paid for taking that extra hour or two. So at the end of the day, getting dinged on a bonus ($$ that you don't really earn anyway) doesn't matter when you have a few hours of OT.

Thoughts_Arrive

Today I needed something urgently done by this lazy girl.
I stood next to her so she could see me waiting and she just looked up at me and back down again without a care in the world and continued chatting to her friend on the phone.
Lazy cow.