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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread makes me sad.

I'm a 40 something Director at a large agency and I love working with my junior staff.  I work at a mostly male dominated organization and in the past 3-4 years we’ve gotten many more women in our agency.  It has been so great to have more females interested in the field.

Also, no one is irreplaceable, eventually, just as I replaced my boss one of the people working for me will replace me.  I plan on teaching them everything I learned and I hope they will one day surpass me.
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THIS is the kind of manager whose surbodinates will enthusiastically ask "how high?" when she tells them to jump and will wipe her ass if she asks. Why? because she treats them with common decency.

OP, with your snooty Marissa Mayer wanna be attitude, you are a mere cog in the wheel, regardless of what your ego likes to tell you.  :roll:[/quote]

See, I think the OP is telling newer/younger staff to treat more senior colleagues with common decency--albeit in a blunt way. Have none of you ever worked with some young whippersnapper who doesn't "get it"? I love love love my staff who organize their questions for me instead of popping in and interrupting every five minutes, who check to make sure I have time (hint: I always make time for someone who asks), and who try to find the answer themselves ("I was wondering about X topic, and found the following--do you agree that this is what I should be pursuing?"). That is a much better question for a manager than "I was wondering about X topic, where should I look?" Obviously when someone is brand new you have to do more hand-holding, but I have worked with people who truly seem to take the path of least resistance. To me, they are not "team players." [/quote]

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