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[graey42]

For all of you who hate your manager(s), try being one sometime. I always give my crew requested nights off when they ask for them. I try to give them nights off together if they want them. Sometimes it doesn't work. Most of the time it does. But when I want two specific nights off, they throw a fit because the "extra" guy isn't on a night

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BTDT

[saundo]

the cardinal rule of being a manager is that "People Suck". It doesn't matter what you do, there will always be someone complaining.

[krypto38801]

Oh, I'm sorry. Let's talk about MY manager, shall we?

He comes in at 6AM< goes up to his office, and sits there, reading the outdated encyclopedias he has in his cubicle all day. When he tires of that, he colors in all the p's, b's and o's on the newspaper which he brought in earlier that day, with red ink. He has a mini-fridge in the cubicle, filled with food and soft drinks. He trades daily emails involving pornographic nature or jokes, and often does not come into work b/c he has a hangover. Rarely, he DOES come into work smelling of beer and/or alcohol. He does not know how to do our jobs, in case one of the checkers has to call in sick, so he STILL gets to sit on his ass in his little cubilce, reading emails, coloring in letters on a damn newspaper, and reading naughty emails while geting paid a dollar more an hour than us checkers

[catparts]

I hear ya, man. I'm a meat market manager in a grocery store. I have to change my schedule all the time b/c so-and-so can't make it in again. Being a manager sucks because most employees are irresponsible and unreliabe and uh, stoooopid.

[astarrymist]

I was in management for awhile so I can see where you are coming from! I always did my best to be fair, but once in awhile (or more often if you are unlucky) you get people who cannot see what you are doing and have to turn it into something that is in someway unfair to them. I'd try to be friendly to my staff, almost in a "friends" kind of way, but still distant enough so that I could be the hardcore boss setting them straight if needed. Sorry your nights off got screwed up!

[dookee]

I'm not a manager, but I've backfilled for them. The problem is that companies want to squeeze blood from stones, employees want their asses kissed and everything handed to them on a silver platter, and as a manager you must act as a mediator between those two things

[graey42]

thanks