I certainly don’t. I’ve been working under a couple of managers in the past few years and I can only say that all of them have been people that think only about themselves and whose only goal is to move up the corporate ladder as fast as possible. I don’t even want to get started on the poor leadership skills they’ve demonstrated in my eyes.
This just got me thinking, have I just been unlucky in terms of what manager I got, or is producing managers of this kind already a part of the company culture?
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I went back to the software world a few months ago. Our manager was a really nice guy to talk to. He didn't micromanage etc. The way his last syllable, at the end of a conversation, invariably dropped at the end of every call showed how much of a weight it was to have such a great happy facade. Or perhaps he simply didn't like talking that much... In any case, he was very fair, consistent and a great manager. He, along with some of my colleagues, were the only reasons I was sad to leave.
My last manager was a very good person and not the reason I left. The company is being run into the ground but incompetent whoSe who of c suite left overs. At first they thought it was an easy fix but weren’t smart enough to see the real challenges. No one wants this 80s era dinosaur.
The good managers are leaving because they are tired of getting beat down from above and hearing it from their employees. There is nothing they can do except leave. I had a dozen ees when I left. I was fed up. I couldn’t protect them and I had no say in any decision anymore.
My manager is a great person. They try to shield our team from the worst of the impact of the stuff coming from higher up the corporate chain, taking on a lot of additional tasks themselves and working insane hours to avoid impacting the team. And MOST of my managers have been great. The problems are coming from the larger overall corporate direction.
It's not the local management that's the problem. All of Xerox's problems are at a corporate level. From the VP level up is where all of the poor decisions are made.
I have a great manager. He is truly one of us. I can't imagine the burden on him with all of the issues of learning SNOW and the fact that we're not going to be able to carry drums and other CRU's. Customers are going to lose their sh-t and he has to answer for it.
Xerox managers do not manage. They babysit as their hands are tied by the corporate BS that emanates from the C suite.
Competent Management has been a challenge for Xerox for a long time. Although I finally left after a very long career a few years ago I got thinking about it after seeing this post. Around 2000 it started to really struggle. Anne did a great job given what she had to work with, but once Ursula took over it was a continuous series of disasters and poor decision making. I did have the opportunity to work with and for both Xerox Managers and Tektronix Managers. My experience was that, without exception, all the Tektronix Managers were excellent. They were true leaders with passion and a bias for action. Now able to compare, I concluded that almost every Xerox Manager was limited, indecisive, lacked vision and leadership. They were all very good people, but seemed to be hampered by their Xerox mindset and limitations.
I suggest if your manager isn't working for you every day, it's time to move on. Managers mange things. Leaders lead people. That's the difference I observed.
I confided in my last manager because I was so overwhelmed and overworked I became ill ftom it I had to let her know. I told her I could no longer support the C level person (who has an assistant but lacks important skills that I have) in addition to my normal job...that it had to be one or the other because working 10 to 12 hours negatively affected my health to where I now have a incurable disability and working long hours made me sicker. Instead of the supposed fair treatment I deserved and out of respect, I was let go...so to answer your question...NO I REALLY HATE MY LAST MANAGER
Yes, thankfully. Hard working, fair.
The good managers have been run off or left on their own....
My current manager (past six yrs) was always supportive and pretty fantastic , and still does the best they can, but that has changed (through no fault of their own) with the BS that has been going on for the past 2 + years. Now they are so overburdened trying to clean up and keep up due to the disaster that is HCL and the leadership of J. Vas---ne and C. Ican't. Try's to insulate us and protects us as much as possible, but it's getting ever harder.