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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think you were ever given the opportunity to learn how to manage effectively. So a lot of this isn’t your fault.

1. [b]It’s ok to say “thank you” and “good job” to your team. You don’t even need to do anything else to start; just “good job” and “thanks”.[/b]

2. [b]Yelling at employees is inappropriate[/b], and it would be more effective to have a 1:1 conversation with the person who isn’t performing than to call a staff meeting to yell at the whole team, or send an angry all-staff email with the exclamation point.

2B. The exclamation point feature should be used extremely sparingly. Like maybe once a quarter at most.

3. Normally I roll my eyes at team building, but [b]I have never experienced such a low-energy, non-cohesive group of people until I started here. Everyone seems miserable, and scared, and while not unfriendly, no one is working towards a common goal because I don’t think there is a common goal.[/b][/quote]

I think we work at the same place.

Not to mention, there are too many people "managing" people - who don't know the first thing about managing anything, at all.  Why are you getting paid to manage when you don't manage??

So many people conveniently checked out and not doing their job, while other schmucks are made to do things they were not hired for (and definitely not told they were hired for) - and most of you pretend to be blissfully unaware, because it suits YOU. Most of those who WFH are laughable, while you use the ones who come into the office as mules. So many people in positions that they have no business being in (hence the pretend to be blissfully unaware).

So gross. [/quote]

Wow that last paragraph describes my office almost exactly. Certain people end up as favorites and get special projects (common theme is brown-nosing the manager, not based on seniority by any means). When said project is over, they get all the recognition and awards. The rest of us who are not a favorite in the meantime have to absorb that person's regular workload, and of course no recognition. Makes for quite a toxic, dysfunctional environment with a lot of resentful people![/quote]

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