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The dreaded ring (by Pedro Arizpe)
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this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2023
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The irony of you talking about empowerment in a thread about someone with crippling anxiety over a friggin phone call 🤦♂️
Professional mistreatment? Keeping you in check?? GTFO you gotta be kidding me. It's a phone call for F's sake. You're unhinged.
What in the world makes you think you have any power or value in a professional setting if you literally can't even have a five minute phone call to run through and explain your work.
I mean, I'm just responding to your comment where you described the employees having the power in your professional setting. People with more information than you have are telling you to treat your employees as a flight risk and not do anything to lose them. That implies they don't want them leaving more than they want to twist the boot they have on their necks.
On a personal note, you sound like a piece of shit. Your reply makes it clear you do see your employees as less than you and want them to just get in line and do what they're told rather than advocate for themselves.
I'm in management at some generic office job. I advocate for my employees. I've done their job and I know it sucks. Now that I've moved up and have more information, their job still sucks and I still see them as people who are just trying to make enough money to live, like we all are. I also make sure to remind them on a regular business not to trust any company and always make decisions that are best for themselves. If I was CEO I would be telling them that.
I suggest you rethink your view on your own employees. Maybe remember that they are people with lives beyond trying to make their boss a little more money. They shouldn't care and neither should you. If you see your employees as just tools to use for the company, your boss thinks the same thing about you. You should be on their side. You have the same enemy.
That's funny. I'm currently on vacation now with a former staff turned friend. (He thinks I'm a moron for engaging with internet trolls and I agree.)
I can name six other staff I've worked with over the years at various firms who I'm still in touch with. They reach out for career advice, technical questions, and just in general to say I'm literally the only manager they've worked with who actually spent time teaching instead of dumping a shitload of work in their lap and then disappearing.
I love telling staff they'll be teaching me stuff before they know it and they never believe me. The proudest moments of my professional life are when they explain something new to me and i go aha! There it is!
So I'm confident you're wrong about the piece of shit argument.
One guy in this very thread told me to fuck off because I miss learning from colleagues. Fuck me, right? These are the people I'm talking about, and right now you're not making a good case for yourself not being one of them.
This really isn't a difficult concept. This thread is full of people who are literally terrified of a friggin phone call. I don't know what fields they're in where they can just be cave trolls who don't answer the phone, much less shower and wear a damn polo with webcam on, but it sure isn't mine. (I can only assume IT of some sort which would explain a lot about the level of people skills and civility in this thread, or lack thereof.)
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I care about the quality of my work and my career. Guess I'll go fuck myself then.
Relax, most people are idiots. There are a lot of idiots and non professionals in this thread. Also a few communists who are anti work by their definition.
Thanks. I post a benign thought that i found interesting and this lunatic goes berserk. I've been on tons of forums on the interwebs for decades now and so far lemmy has more idiots and assholes than anywhere I've ever been, and they're super aggressive too. Seriously considering deleting my account here.