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Job/Work Advice Needed; A different kind of scenario
Topic Started: Jul 15 2015, 10:26 AM (458 Views)
Jolly
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A couple or three words of wisdom...

1. John Wayne's dead and the cavalry ain't comin'. Or, it's hard to get your balance while standing on a bowling ball.

Sometimes as a manager, you get placed in situations where the best you can do, is impossible to get done. Or not even wanted, by upper management. In those cases, you herd cats as best you can, either by training, example, charm or a fvckin' big club, to get your folks to do what you need them to do. Do not sweat the small stuff, but make sure the big stuff gets done.

2. Speaking of small stuff, do not get nibbled to death by ducks. If you concentrate too much on details, you neglect the main event. Focus on what has to happen, as it needs to happen. And don't get overwhelmed when presented with a monumental project. You treat those the same as eating an elephant - divide it in to portions and chew one bite at a time.

3. Don't take the crap home with you. Work is work, home is home. That doesn't mean you may not have to work some long hours. You probably will. But when you walk out the office door, throw the job on the floor as you walk out.

4. Be fair with employees and be honest. You are not their friend, you're their boss. It doesn't matter how good you may want to be to them, at the end of the day, you're still a motherfvcker. So, since you ain't gonna get friendship, strive for respect. Play no favorites, reward and punish equally.

5. The people you fire are not the ones you lose sleep over, no matter how bad their sob stories. The people that keep you up at night are the ones you should have fired, and didn't.

Lastly, your generation is the one that's always looking for the next job. Almost always, at least with the better jobs, relationships are everything. Cultivate your relationships and do not hide your light under a bushel basket. When others universally start to think of ol' AL as being good at what he does, you can screw up nine ways from Sunday, and they'll still think you're good at what you do.

Come back next week and our seminar will be on how to think out of the box. :tongue:
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros
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Aqua Letifer
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Mikhailoh
Jul 16 2015, 06:24 AM
One of the things you will see if you have your own business is you are sometimes faced with unpalatable choices between quality and profitability, often driven by competition. I have been fortunate enough to be able to choose quality, but that is largely because I also do the work. When you are a step or two removed from that and you have employees cash flow can become more important - it's great to do high quality, but if it causes you to shut the doors and turn off the lights? A more difficult decision. People lose their jobs and you lose your company.

Yeah, and I understand that. But I showed them how to clean up the most major problems by spending $50 a month. Hell I even did a trial run just to see if it was 100% feasible and to show them tangibly how to do it. But no, "too much money." Meanwhile we spend 100-fold that at least in the same amount of time for consultants to tell us, "you need to fix that crap that's broken." And then they're amazed that the consultant visit didn't fix anything. That was my routine every month for a year. I don't do that crap anymore.

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What I see is this - you are the product here. You can automate the busy work. Which means you can accomplish more in a day than three or four other people can. What is to stop you from going out and pursuing this type of work on your own? Is it connections?


I suppose connections is one thing, yeah. Another is if I even want to do that. Now, I have a slight abundance of time on my hands to pursue more of what I want. The downside is that the work I do put in is at times retarded, and it's not what we should be doing. I strike it out on my own, no more bullshit, but I also have a feeling I'd be marrying my job. I dunno, I've always been kind of on the fence about it.

But the advantage to being so short-staffed here is that I've had to learn how to do every step of the process, so if I did go solo I'd have a very good idea on what I'd need to do to get started.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Jolly
Jul 16 2015, 06:37 AM
Lastly, your generation is the one that's always looking for the next job. Almost always, at least with the better jobs, relationships are everything. Cultivate your relationships and do not hide your light under a bushel basket. When others universally start to think of ol' AL as being good at what he does, you can screw up nine ways from Sunday, and they'll still think you're good at what you do.
Yeah, I know it's hard to believe, but I've always been bad at the "cultivating relationships" thing. :P
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Mikhailoh
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Aqua Letifer
Jul 16 2015, 06:39 AM
Mikhailoh
Jul 16 2015, 06:24 AM
One of the things you will see if you have your own business is you are sometimes faced with unpalatable choices between quality and profitability, often driven by competition. I have been fortunate enough to be able to choose quality, but that is largely because I also do the work. When you are a step or two removed from that and you have employees cash flow can become more important - it's great to do high quality, but if it causes you to shut the doors and turn off the lights? A more difficult decision. People lose their jobs and you lose your company.

Yeah, and I understand that. But I showed them how to clean up the most major problems by spending $50 a month. Hell I even did a trial run just to see if it was 100% feasible and to show them tangibly how to do it. But no, "too much money." Meanwhile we spend 100-fold that at least in the same amount of time for consultants to tell us, "you need to fix that crap that's broken." And then they're amazed that the consultant visit didn't fix anything. That was my routine every month for a year. I don't do that crap anymore.

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What I see is this - you are the product here. You can automate the busy work. Which means you can accomplish more in a day than three or four other people can. What is to stop you from going out and pursuing this type of work on your own? Is it connections?


I suppose connections is one thing, yeah. Another is if I even want to do that. Now, I have a slight abundance of time on my hands to pursue more of what I want. The downside is that the work I do put in is at times retarded, and it's not what we should be doing. I strike it out on my own, no more bull****, but I also have a feeling I'd be marrying my job. I dunno, I've always been kind of on the fence about it.

But the advantage to being so short-staffed here is that I've had to learn how to do every step of the process, so if I did go solo I'd have a very good idea on what I'd need to do to get started.
Commitment phobia. Partner, if I have ever seen someone who needs to be on his own it is you.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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