I don't know if there may be cultural differences at play or not, but yeah, from my perspective that supervisory behavior is just bitchiness.
In most of the supervisory roles I've taken, if I fucked up someone's schedule, then my happy supervisory ass had to go in to fill the gaps created. If I promised an employee something, then that something got delivered, come hell or high water. I don't break promises, and I don't expect someone to work for me if I can't keep my promise to them.
So if I tell someone they have a day off they've requested, that is exactly what is going to happen, even if I have to fill the gap myself. There is no "gee, I messed the schedule up, so since I messed up, you will suffer for it and give up the day off I promised you".
That attitude has payed off over time - I've had some of the most loyal workers possible over my time. I had one crew that mutineed when the company tried to step down my position because of budget overrun concerns. All 25 of them told the higher ups that if they cut me, they were REALLY gonna have some budget problems with no one working for them to bring in the revenue.
I had another guy tell me once that there was nothing I could ask the folks on the crew to do that they wouldn't at least try, because they all knew I wouldn't ask them to do anything I wouldn't do myself.
Everyone whose ever worked for me knew I had their back if the shit got rough. You can't expect folks to give you their best if you are not willing to reciprocate that as their manager.
Because of her actions, Truey's manager is not fit to manage, from my perspective. She is not "managing", she is "dictating". It's easy to dictate, and hard to manage, but managing pays off much better in the long run in employee loyalty. You don't crap on the good employees to cover for the bad ones - you fire the bad ones and fill the gaps yourself until such time as you can hire to replace them.
Just my perspective.
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In most of the supervisory roles I've taken, if I fucked up someone's schedule, then my happy supervisory ass had to go in to fill the gaps created. If I promised an employee something, then that something got delivered, come hell or high water. I don't break promises, and I don't expect someone to work for me if I can't keep my promise to them.
So if I tell someone they have a day off they've requested, that is exactly what is going to happen, even if I have to fill the gap myself. There is no "gee, I messed the schedule up, so since I messed up, you will suffer for it and give up the day off I promised you".
That attitude has payed off over time - I've had some of the most loyal workers possible over my time. I had one crew that mutineed when the company tried to step down my position because of budget overrun concerns. All 25 of them told the higher ups that if they cut me, they were REALLY gonna have some budget problems with no one working for them to bring in the revenue.
I had another guy tell me once that there was nothing I could ask the folks on the crew to do that they wouldn't at least try, because they all knew I wouldn't ask them to do anything I wouldn't do myself.
Everyone whose ever worked for me knew I had their back if the shit got rough. You can't expect folks to give you their best if you are not willing to reciprocate that as their manager.
Because of her actions, Truey's manager is not fit to manage, from my perspective. She is not "managing", she is "dictating". It's easy to dictate, and hard to manage, but managing pays off much better in the long run in employee loyalty. You don't crap on the good employees to cover for the bad ones - you fire the bad ones and fill the gaps yourself until such time as you can hire to replace them.
Just my perspective.
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