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I remember asking my manager to stop talking over me in a con-call. I was gone within a month
Were you fired or did you quit?
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Only if all bosses are bad :).
My 3/4 bosses as intern were great. One guy was really incompetent, but he got me when the manager, who hired me, quit. So it’s almost ok. After graduation the quality of managers varied greatly. There was a guy with 20 yeas experience, who took my mentoring very seriously. He fired me when I started my own company. Good decision actually! A boss before him was a great narcissist, if I were smarter, I would be able t…
That sounds like a truly great mentor.
Some bosses are bad in a sense that they conduct or behave themselves in ways that transgress laws, but they'd be a minority of those deemed "bad".
Based only on anecdotal evidence (and yeah the plural of anecdote is not data) I'd sugges that figure wildy, wildly underestimated. I'm trying to think if I know /anyone/ over 35 who hasn't? Maybe, but I have to think quite hard.
I'm glad I got it out of the way early, I'm a few years into my next job now and loving it.
If you enjoy your work then the next thing that's going to likely drive you from your job is a human factor and which human will you consistently have to interact with, your manager. And so it does in some way stand to reason. Also as a middle manager I can relate to some of the struggles. You will have potentially competing points of view from what your team would like to do and what the company wants them to do. Bu…
Thats my experience.
Being a manager of role x is not the same as being in role x.
Becoming a manager is a career change.
https://getlighthouse.com/blog/people-leave-managers-not-com...
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> Few direct managers have the ability to give you a raise that a new employer would I'm usually very up-front with my reports on this. I make it very clear that I cannot compete with other companies on an immediate short-term compensation bump, so if they prioritize "money now" over everything else, then they should go out and interview. However in the four years that I was a manager at my previous company, nobody o…
>immediate short-term compensation bump Did you believe you could deliver better long term compensation? This phrasing suggests that, it's a clever way to suggest something without promising it.
Usually, but not always. Of course it's impossible to predict 4+ years into the future, because so many factors can come into play on that time scale.
Sure, but it takes two to tango. Humans are great in selective memories, post-facto rationalizing their own failings. Once you've been a manager you'll understand the other side of this.
But the manager has more power than subordinates, so it's not quite symmetric. -- I don't often hear of managers leaving because of bad subordinates.