Comments on: A question for ya: Three tips for your boss

By: Reva Salisbury

Reva Salisbury — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:07:50 +0000

1. Learn to spell.
2. Having personal relationships at work is unprofessional and awkward for everyone else.
3. Fess up and admit you have another job and stop trying to use what everyone does here over there-JUST LEAVE US AND WORK AT YOUR OTHER JOB! Everyone else is doing your work anyway! WE DONT NEED YOU!

By: Anna Belle

Anna Belle — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:55:15 +0000

I was promoted to Supervisor. I make the employee schedule. I had a troubled employee who was a No Call No Show so she now gets less hours on the schedule I created. I showed it to my boss who agreed till that employee seen it and complained to him. My boss then came to me and wanted me to give her more hours. How do I express to my boss…”You give me a responsibility to run a department but you wont back me up on my decisions after en employee comes to you to complain?”

By: Theresa said

Theresa said — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 06:16:05 +0000

1. Don’t promote a person who has never been a supervisor before to the position only to tell that person ” I don’t know what’s wrong with you, but maybe I just don’t feel like training”.

2. Don’t agree to send parts of our jobs over to India and then compare us to them by stating “India is smarter than this team” and when we don’t stop complaining about the extra workload we took on due to India’s mistakes (they’re learning-and super intelligent) don’t shit on us by making up a critical and non-critical error system to tally both sides mistakes…to make it FAIR. e.g. If we don’t highlight a credit memo…it’s DOCUMENTED and we’re sent DAILY error reports!! Anyone else think this is stupid?

3. Don’t criticize the new supervisor, make the person feel like they can’t do anything right, micromanage everything the person does, and then get mad and hold a GRUDGE against that person when he/she goes to personnel to tell their side of the story.

4. When micromangement in a family,,,what happens to kids?

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:13:39 +0000

No “ouch” at all, Anthony. I wouldn’t think of treating my kids the way employers here treat their staff.

By: Lee Anthony

Lee Anthony — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 23:04:48 +0000

Ahh, the pain, I love it. Help me to be a better manager, even if it hurts me!

Now go back, everyone, an re-read these comments, but this time, instead of assuming they are truths you’d want your manager to know/hear, imagine instead they are what your children expect of you as their parent.

Ouch, a bit close to home?

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:36:28 +0000

1. Don’t cheap out on technical support. Our computer network, hardware, software, training, etc. is a foundation of the business without which everything else fails. Without adequate human skilled support for it, employees and bosses waste huge amounts of time and experience a level of frustration that results in good people leaving. Provide the basic technical tools we need to function at a reasonable capacity.

2. Recognize that just because you have a degree in your skill and are my boss doesn’t mean that I’m less intelligent and that my skill is less respectable. Without my skill your business doesn’t work very well so please respect and appreciate my skill as I do yours. Don’t second guess my expertise. I don’t second-guess yours.

3. Involve support staff in the big picture. We’re the best marketing tool you have and yet you don’t give us enough information with which we can gush about our place of work and it’s vision and accomplishments to friends, family, neighbours, acquaintances, etc. Good things that I could brag about happen here and yet nobody shares that information outside the upper circles and so the marketing potential is lost and we often don’t even hear about how we contributed to your business success. Opportunities for improved morale and enthusiasm are thoughtlessly squandered.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:22:00 +0000

Thanks everybody – this is great stuff!

Gracias, Osvaldo, I got my wonderful girlfriend to translate :o)

By: SPK

SPK — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:19:04 +0000

1). Stop taking credit for other people’s work

2). Stop making mountains out of mole hills

3). Stop the condescending attitude towards employees

By: Osvaldo

Osvaldo — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:13:51 +0000

Can I to write in Spanish? OK, thank you.

1) Que no se fije solamente en los errores cometidos. A veces, los empleados también hacemos cosas buenas, aunque sea por error.

2) Que no utilice sarcasmos ni se ría cuando descubre un error. Los terrícolas somos algo susceptibles.

3) Que de vez en cuando se ponga al tanto de lo que uno hace.

English Translation: (http://www.epals.com/translation/translation.e)
1) that he doesn’t only notice in the made errors. Sometimes, the employees also make good things, although it is by mistake. 2) that he doesn’t use sarcasms neither laugh when he/she discovers an error. The earthlings are something susceptible. 3) that he from time to time finds out of that that one ago

By: mel

mel — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:27:43 +0000

1. say thank you for a job well done. So some appreciation for an employee who goes above and beyond. In the same vein, let your employee know when they are doing something that you are not happy with. If they don’t know its a problem, they have no way to correct it. Firing them without letting them know what they did wrong, doesn’t help either of you.

2. don’t say one thing and do another. don’t ask for an opinion if you really won’t even take it into consideration.

3. keep your employees aware of the things that are pertinent to their job and leave them out of things that have nothing to do with them.

I could really go on and on and on…