Poor people management?
I have yet to work with my senior manager (the "eunuch"). We are in different specialisation team. Specialisation was instituted by the current big boss ("the empress") when she came into the picture a less than 2 years ago.
So almost all the stories I heard are from my colleagues. Although I usually give people benefit of a doubt, these stories are too consistent with one another to be untrue (barring conspiracy).
Some of the key details of the stories are:
So almost all the stories I heard are from my colleagues. Although I usually give people benefit of a doubt, these stories are too consistent with one another to be untrue (barring conspiracy).
Some of the key details of the stories are:
- If there are lots of issues with the work and there's ample evidence that it is due to client's incompetence, he blames his team members for being inefficiency. He'll find two thousand and two reasons to side any other parties except for his team members. (JJ: Wow!)
- If client provides information/data miles later than the timeline communicated to them earlier, he still wants the team to meet the original deadline. The reason? Well, he's afraid that if he asks for extension of deadline, that means clients will hold them to that deadline and he's afraid to the team cannot meet this extended deadline. (JJ: what sort of warped argument is that??)
- When asked why the rest of the company is getting bonus except our department, he basically indicated that he doesn't know why and didn't do anything to find out.
- He believed that we shouldn't care about bonus and that we shouldn't be in this work because of money. It should be because of passion. (JJ: Ok, in that case, let's cut his salary by half and give it to the rest of us as salary increment)
- He said that only the words of the empress can be trusted.
- He doesn't trust my colleagues because they make mistakes. Incidentally, he makes mistakes too. (JJ: I don't think he realised that his team members are humans)
- He doesn't give praises at all. He himself admitted that he's cold-hearted.
- He doesn't care if his team members are ill, staying late to work or working during the weekend. Oh, he does care about staying late to work: "I don't understand why you need to stay late to work." (JJ: See point 1 and 2 above)
- He constantly worries about what other parties think of the team e.g. clients, other departments etc and so the team has to project perfect image to others. Perfection. No mistake. He doesn't seem to care at all what the views of his team members, no matter how sound or rationale they are.
Comments
-Sister to JJ
You said it :)
But at least yours is not that cold and unfeeling, right?
We finally got an answer but satisfatory. Unfortunately, we cannot prove the empress is wrong.
That's true.