tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post5785179088816645717..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Do You Hate Your Job?Stuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-22149917662536499832014-06-05T11:30:26.948-07:002014-06-05T11:30:26.948-07:00JKB..."technology helps many managers slip in...JKB..."technology helps many managers slip into the micro domain. And, of course, the habitual micromanager powered with the technology has become unbearable."<br /><br />Yes, there is truth in this. Before modern telecommunications, a certain level of decentralization was forced by the constraints of geography and time...think a captain at sea, a military commander in the field, or even a regional sales manager. Now, avoidance of micromanagement requires conscious decision on the part of the manager.David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-88955868112514574552014-06-05T10:34:14.507-07:002014-06-05T10:34:14.507-07:00The problem is micromanagers. And technology help...The problem is micromanagers. And technology helps many managers slip into the micro domain. And, of course, the habitual micromanager powered with the technology has become unbearable. <br /><br />The tendency toward micromanagement is inculcated in the zero-fail culture of educational conditioning as well as the continued sense of competition rather than cooperation that the edumedication sends into the work place. <br /><br />Good managers have to come to accept ambiguity. Give the work, trust it will be done, live in doubt until it comes back from the employee. Tough, when you can hover and message to salve your fears. JKBnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-38583371655487965092014-06-05T09:10:35.790-07:002014-06-05T09:10:35.790-07:00It is true that many people are disengaged from th...It is true that many people are disengaged from their jobs, or dislike or even hate them...but this author's diagnosis of the reasons for this do not seem very accurate to me. I think that in reality there are two primary factors:<br /><br />1) Excessive Taylorization, ie micromanagement of the way the individual performs his job. This is especially true in customer=service jobs, both telephone-based and in physical retail stores. See my post Mindless Verbal Taylorism:<br /><br />http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/8034.html<br /><br />2) Badly designed organization structures. This tends especially to affect higher-level employees. In many corporations, lack of intelligent thought about how pieces of the organization need to interact with each other makes it very difficult to get things done, which is especially demoralizing to the most talented, committed, and valuable of the employees. Ironically, the general hostility toward hierarchies seems to have made this problem worse, not better.<br /><br />David Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464681514800720063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-34339396201810503882014-06-05T08:24:43.360-07:002014-06-05T08:24:43.360-07:00When did people like their jobs? I want to know. F...When did people like their jobs? I want to know. For most people the answer is never. <br /><br />As for broken families and unfixed roles, yeah it's a problem but when the Communism fell freedom caused problems too because people had to find their way in a world that wasn't pre-ordained. And yet we still think it was good overall.<br /><br />As for multi-culturalism causing problems, that sounds like baloney. Everyone knows they have to work. That's the key element in any culture.Recruiting Animalhttp://recruitinganimal.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-56577082156119018652014-06-05T08:19:16.951-07:002014-06-05T08:19:16.951-07:00I'm chagrined by articles like this. More thum...I'm chagrined by articles like this. More thumb sucking about Elite employees who make up a tiny fraction of the workforce. Most sit on their rumps in climate-controlled offices, and whine when they have to fly Economy.<br /><br />For most of my working life, I was one of them. However, I was well aware of my good fortune.<br /><br />The vast majority of workers have other concerns. E.g., the physical pain & damage done from standing & walking for 8 or 10 hours. "Sweat workers" have it even harder. I know many.<br /><br />I've heard bosses' baloney about caring for their people for decades. Pious, hypocritical Hooey.<br /><br />Carnegie's steel workers toiled 11 hour days, 6 days a week. At starvation wages. Many died or suffered gruesome injuries. My Polish grandfather worked in steel foundries.<br /><br />Karl Rove says those days were the "Golden Age". I'm not a Liberal or Socialist, but that's obscene. -- Rich Lara Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-84163215004131268582014-06-05T03:46:05.308-07:002014-06-05T03:46:05.308-07:00Twice a week You write on this blog, that Chinese ...Twice a week You write on this blog, that Chinese are better, or will be better soon. Maybe employees read this, and wants to be everything for everyone, because perspective of being replaced by Chinese is horrible. Especially, if somebody is not an owner of his own home.Jockernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-21000462178207208682014-06-04T17:34:37.719-07:002014-06-04T17:34:37.719-07:00I am unemployable and have been for some time, but...I am unemployable and have been for some time, but there was a time when I was thought to be valuable, and for most of my working years, I had the good fortune to be paid well for doing stuff I liked to do.<br /><br />Now days, it looks to me like it is a fools game to look for a good job--the pay cut you have to take is too great.Larry Sheldonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653436584890594776noreply@blogger.com