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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you ever become a manager you'll see how it is.  Your staff's performance is a reflection of you and if you are at a company that is not doing well, then the pressure mounts.  Managers are only as good as the staff that they manage.  It's important for staff to build trust with their managers and also learn to manage up.

[/quote]I can only do so much managing up.  My manager's anxiety makes it harder to do my job because I'm always trying to guess what she wants and it's not clear what that is some days.  Imagine spending the day trying to decide which approach to take but not knowing whether you'll be attacked for it, regardless.  She just doesn't trust people to do their jobs. I basically have the philosophy that it's important for me to do a good job in spite of how I am treated - but as others have said, it's exhausting and they lose good people because of it.

That said, she's not as bad as some of the people described on this thread and if I didn't work for her I think we'd be great friends. I feel guilty for criticizing her behind her back but some days I think that her being a nice person in many ways just makes it worse because I do feel guilty and I shouldn't![/quote]

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