People Doing the Least Amount of Work Being Promoted to Management
@msrascon (34)
North Salt Lake, Utah
October 10, 2015 3:26am CST
Seems like everywhere I've worked the managers are made up of the laziest people in the entire business. Why is is that the people that are the dumbest and do the least amount of work are the ones that stand out and get promoted? I do 5 times more work than my boss does. She shouldn't even be a manager. She does what typical managers tend to do which is just look busy, but not really be doing anything of any importance.
Why does this tend to happen in businesses. The people that are picking up the slack and really making a place run are the people that don't get rewarded and don't get promoted.
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@msrascon (34)
• North Salt Lake, Utah
11 Oct 15
That does tend to be true that managing is in the people skills which tend to be stronger in extroverts than introverts. I've been a worker bee and I've been a regional manager and I'm in introvert. It was extremely hard mentally to be in that position and have to "act" like an extrovert.
I agree a lot of manager, whether they are good at their jobs or not, generally do have good people skills.
@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
10 Oct 15
I see that a lot too. It's often the ones who toady round managers and tell tales on other staff a lot. One guy who started at the bottom on the same day as myself got to be a manager within a year. He made it clear that he was a career climber from day one but he was so ruthless he just put people's backs up. I saw it change him so much. He was fanatical, almost religious about the company. He stopped chatting to staff, lost his sense of humour, spoke only in corporate sound-bites and mutated before our eyes. I was never on his team, and many who were with him quit rather than continuing to work with him. It put me off wanting a managerial role anywhere.
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@msrascon (34)
• North Salt Lake, Utah
11 Oct 15
That would put me off from wanting a managerial role too. I wouldn't want to turn into that kind of person. But I guess you set your mind out to become a ladder climber that's what'll happen to you.
@boiboing (13153)
• Northampton, England
10 Oct 15
My guess is that she's doing things a lot more effectively than you are. People who look busy are rarely achieving very much.
@rahulvsmokiee (3110)
• Thiruvananthapuram, India
10 Oct 15
Lol! You must not forget her efforts she took to become a manager. It's obvious that a qualified person gets promoted to much higher. But i am sad that your work and effort are not recognized by others. It would be great if hard working workers are too promoted or rewarded with incentives. I hope that you get some incentives from your work,right? i know that you are really a hard worker. That's why you are still working in here.
@msrascon (34)
• North Salt Lake, Utah
11 Oct 15
*for point of reference I'm housekeeper, my boss is the head housekeeper**
I gotta say I disagree. For example I cleaned top to bottom two disastrous rooms, coordinated paperwork with the front desk (bosses job), sorted laundry (300 lbs of laundry also bosses job as the manager), finished up her paperwork, filed it.
In that same amount of time I did all that by boss cleaned two oven burners (which isn't my bosses job). I came in after all I did and cleaned the last two burners in 10 minutes better than she (my boss) had cleaned the other two during the last couple hours while I did everything else.
Probably hands down the laziest supervisor I've had. I have no clue why she is a supervisor. She spends 80% of the day starring at her paperwork like he's going to jump out at her. The other 20% she finds time wasting jobs
