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[quote=Anonymous]PP here.  Another point,

As a manager, my job is not to hand hold.  My job is to ensure the group is profitable this year, next year, and the year after that.  I am given a budget to do that -- that budget can be expressed in terms of man hours.

In my work (Gov't contracting), everyones time has to be accounted for completely.  It can be on a project, or indirect/overhead.  Indirect/overhead includes running the company, managing my people, and marketing/proposing future work.  We (or the customer) separate running the company (G & A)  (usually regulatory compliance issues) from people and marketing (OH).

I want to spend my overhead on marketing -- to ensure the revenue stream exists in the future.  I budget abut 100 hours/year (for me) to do personnel management, about 1200/year direct support of contract, and about 700 hours per year marketing.

of that 100 hours, that includes balancing workloads, performance reviews, and any personnel issue.  I manage 15 people; Performance review take 30 hours per year.  Balancing workloads takes about 50 hours per week (4 hours per month). So that leaves me with 20 hours to deal with other issues.  That includes illness/disability (finding replacements, etc).

You come to me with a personality issue, and I have to look into it, that is coming out of the 20 hours.  If there is a real issue, ok:  ethics, discrimination, harassment, violation of company policies.  Otherwise my first question will be "have you talked to them?".

If the issue (one I actually had) was he talks to himself when he works and that disturbs me, and he is a nationally renowned scientist who regularly brings in 2-3 million in contracts, and you are a recent grad who is supposed to support him, guess what?  I will solve the problem.  I suggested music/headphone.  When that was rejection, I told the young employee that it was time to either learn to live with it or find another job.  If you force me to take action between him and you, I will fire you.[/quote]

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