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Being a manager (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago by prole@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Ok so, somehow I ended up being a manager at work. Mostly I just don't bother anyone and protect them from the bosses when I can. However, I'm a software dev and they had me make a bunch of scripts and such to measure productivity. I didn't really want to because fuck that, but as I was working on it I realized none of the bosses will ever look at this code or question the output.

I ended up padding the stats quite a bit in "honest" ways by doing things like excluding weekends and holidays. I also round everything up to the nearest whole number. But then I decided to just add extra values here and there as well. Instead of starting the count at 0, I start at 1.

The bosses asked for a monthly report, so I give them 28 days (and don't count the weekends). I drop the lowest count days if there are more than 28 days in the month and present all of the stats as monthly.

Anyway, just remember there are lots of ways to help your coworkers and you don't actually have to do any managing if everyone understands what's up. Just be really careful and try to always give yourself plausible deniability. LLMs are a great excuse to shift blame right now even if you aren't using one

Anyone else have ideas or things they've done?

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[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I too recently was promoted to a management role in retail (shit sucks never do this if it's avoidable) and I've been doing the same kinda shit balancing tills and tweaking things to avoid writeups for my coworkers & make things easier when I can. It helps I'm the lowest/newest manager so I'm not involved in stuff like hiring/firing (basically doing my normal job with some additional responsibilities) so I just do my best to make things easier for my coworkers until the inevitable moment I have to choose between the company and my coworkers (100% certain it'll happen and 100% certain I'll quit before I side with the company).

Some days I regret taking it but I've also had to deal with truely shitty managers & didn't want to risk that happening if they hired some rando who might be a prick.

[–] prole@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah, I took it because I was pretty sure they'd lay me off if I didn't. I kinda hate this job, but it's fully remote and I can actually afford rent and groceries now so I'm starting to understand why people are class traitors