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StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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Goofyernmost said:
I don't want to sound disparaging, but, you are talking about life. The firms owner has everything on the line, you have a single job. He/She may have life savings, home mortgages, debt up the tutu and people putting pressure on him/her to produce. Might even be something as simple as a bank that wants to see better returns. So, yes, he/she will be a royal pain in the butt when around. They will micro-manage because, frankly, it is their business. If they don't have the right to want to see it their way, who does? One mistake that employees make quite often is the idea that because you are a "manager" means you are completely in-charge, that is not true. What a business owner hires a manager for is to operate his/her company the way he/she wants to see it running. Unless, they come right out and say... do whatever you want, that is what is expected. They want you to make sure it is run the way they want it run. You, as management, are there to stand in for the involved owner, not take over unless that is specifically in your job description. A manager has to work within the confines of the wishes of the owner. The only one in any company that can do things exactly like they want to, would be the owner, no one else. Everyone else works under the directions and philosophy of the owner.
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You see, I understand that yes, he is the owner, and in the end, yes, it is his business, but the thing is, I get a heck of a lot more done when he's not there. If his wife isn't in the office (which when he's there, you can guarantee she's not) I call her several times during my shift to report in. She knows basically everything that's going on. And she's the expert when it comes to the HR side of the business. She's also the calmer one who will remember what I tell her. I don't mind him saying stuff like, "Well, when you're calling a candidate, say this a little differently..." but when he's in the middle of what appears to be an important sales call, no, I'm not interrupting to tell him how we're proceeding with a phone line issue. Not when I've already dealt with the issue. If I interrupted, he'd probably ask me why I was interrupting.

I also don't mind if he asks me to use Publisher to make a sales flyer, but when he pulls me away from my desk to send his emails or text messages, and then later asks why his interview schedule isn't filled, that is frustrating as well. He needs either a personal assistant or to learn how to use the technology himself.

This will likely be a good learning experience for me, but the micromanaging, combined with other issues (including the fact that the workload has been so horrible that I haven't even gotten a lunch break the past few Fridays when I've been there all day), might be a reason for me to say adieu come December.
 
ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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StarWarsGirl said:
Can you imagine being the parents of a kid like that? If you're exhausted just dealing with him after an hour, imagine how the parents must feel having to live with that behavior and dealing with it on a daily basis.

Makes me glad for my brother. He's in all special ed classes, but really has no behavioral issues. I drove him a few years ago to his summer speech classes, and some of the kids at the school...my goodness. His worst problem is that he tends not to pay attention in class. Which isn't all that different from his sister, tbh. For example, I was going to start my Econ homework about 30 minutes ago...
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I know I've thought of that too...(about the parents). In this case I think that is where some of his problems stem from unfortunately. His parents aren't in the picture and he lives with grandma. According to Grandma she rarely sees him as he is "doing what boys do outside" all the time. So I don't think there is a lot of supervision or love at home.:(
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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MinnieM123 said:
O.k. I'm intrigued and confused. I thought I read at some point about a less formal lunch menu, but that you had to still reserve time, or line up a few hours ahead? Maybe this was at the very beginning when they first opened. So are you saying that you order from a regular QS counter (where would that be?), and then you can just go and sit at any table? Do they remove tablecloths for the lunch QS patrons--so that the tables will turn over faster? :confused:
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I think you can even preorder food now. so you just go there, pick your food, eat.. and be done.
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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StarWarsGirl said:
That was only some of what was going wrong today. I've had two different people email me and say that they couldn't call us. And the other manager, who is supposed to check the HR email when I'm not there, has not been checking it, so the email hadn't gotten checked since Monday when I left the office at noon. :grumpy: I was supposed to have an intern in today, but she called in sick. We had a computer that was set up, and then we realized that it needed to use the Ethernet connection, not the WiFi, and we had to set it up again in another corner that reached the ethernet line. And to top it all off, the printer wasn't working, so we had to fix that. This was all between 9 am and 12 pm. I was so glad I was not there the whole day.

Oh, and the owner will be working out of this office on Friday for most of the day. When I'm there all day.

I only agreed to stay with this job through December. At this rate, I don't think I will be asking to come back if my job continues to be this hectic and the owner doesn't learn to trust that I'm handling everything and he doesn't need to micromanage. I did all this stuff as an intern over the summer, before that I did this exact same job with another insurance company. My next door neighbor, the one who I've house sat for, is a head hunter, and she's told me if I'm not happy at my current job, she can help place me. Or maybe I'll think about moving to Florida. Maybe.
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wicked.. can I send her my resume too? ill happily chaperone you to Florida ;)
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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In the Parks
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ajrwdwgirl said:
I know I've thought of that too...(about the parents). In this case I think that is where some of his problems stem from unfortunately. His parents aren't in the picture and he lives with grandma. According to Grandma she rarely sees him as he is "doing what boys do outside" all the time. So I don't think there is a lot of supervision or love at home.:(
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That's sad. It probably contributes to problems he would already have.

There was one girl in my brother's class who had both her parents, though, and she was oppositional like that. Highly verbal. Yelled a good bit, especially at other students. My brother had a crush on her, and because he's not as verbal and sometimes says silly stuff just to get you to respond, she would get angry with him and yell things at him like, "What is your problem!" or "Shut up!"

Of course, sometimes parents, even good parents, make mistakes with punishing their kids. With my brother, he tends to hit when he's upset. It was getting really bad for a while when I first started college, to the point that I told my mom that if it didn't stop, I was going to have to figure out another living arrangement because I didn't feel safe in my own home. I probably would have explained the situation to school and taken out a loan to get on-campus housing, which I didn't really want to do because I didn't want to have debt upon graduation, but I wasn't sure what else to do. It took finally going to my mom's friend, who runs a daycare and knows more about young kids than anyone I know, after she saw my brother whack me one time for my parents to take it seriously (her friend talked to her about the situation after it happened). My parents started more heavily enforcing rules for when he hit, and the behavior stopped..for a while.

They started to lapse when enforcing the policy, and my dad could be especially bad (If I got hit and told him, he asked me what I was doing to deserve it). I talked to my mom again and was very straightforward and serious with her: he's 15 and bigger than me, I get migraines and have a budging disc in my neck, he cannot hit me, especially since he goes for the head. I also told her what my dad kept saying, and she agreed with me: the hitting needed to be addressed first, and then how to handle the situation better on my end could be discussed. They implemented a policy with my brother that if he hits, he loses his iPod, and unlike other punishments where the punishment can be reversed with good behavior, the lost iPod stands. He's only hit a few times since that policy went into effect, and even then, it was a mild bonk that didn't really hurt. But the punishment is the same regardless.

It's very hard for these parents to understand the difference between "Well, he has (autism, down syndrome, etc.) so he's going to behave this way" to "Yes, he has (autism, etc.) but that does not mean it is okay for him to act this way". It's a very fine line to walk.
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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MinnieM123 said:
Delta is famous for doing that. That's one of the reasons why I switched (years ago) away from Delta and over to Jet Blue. (I'm not sure if Jet Blue flies out of your area.) Seems to me like you made an effort at selecting an appropriate flight down when you first booked this. Things sometimes happen, and I think that your boss will understand--it's not like you're constantly asking for favors, you know?
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We've always flown Southwest to MCO, and have never had any major issues.
DS and I flew Frontier to meet DWifey and youngest DD on the DLR day of her HS choir So Cal trip back in '10. No problems with those flights either.
We actually did fly Delta on our Feb. trip. Not a single issue. Of course, that was only one time recently. The last time I remember flying Delta was decades ago, when I was a kiddo.
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Cesar R M said:
Iger would have sent a gunboat with zero trained crew instead of a long range VOYAGER class federation starship with top class crew.
And then would boast about how much money he saved to the military board while they are horrified they might all end dead because of the critical missionw as cost cutted by a wall street goon.
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The USS Shareholder, then..."Eight Quadrabadillion Dollars: Not Even Close to the Final Fronteir"...! :hilarious:
 
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