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Originally Posted by Diurnal
Couldn't agree more. Surveys show that most employees quit their jobs because of their supervisor and/or manager, and not because of money. I think supervisors and managers are put there without proper training and they are chosen for the wrong skills, and when they are put there they become authoritative and closed minded to others who are low in rank. For example, I have a supervisor who is very detached from her employees at the personal level. She doesn't know anything about them, and she doesn't want to. She would walk in on you in the kitchen and not even acknowledge you, not even with a short look and a nod  , let alone strike a small talk, yet when it's time to distribute tasks under the manager's eyes, she is polite and greeting you ... etc. It's difficult to reconcile the two faces. I feel she's using me as a means like a robot without proper acknowledgment to me as a human being first. Even when I finish tasks, she doesn't thank me. Just "here is your next task" ... etc |
Yes, agreed.
Your supervisor sounds contradictory and yes, robotic. How can a manager ignore the human element of relating to their employees? That's not a good leader in my opinion - to just be a taskmaster and nothing more. A good leader inspires and motivates their employees - and should be approachable. And that involves also being able to relate to them on the human level.
So many leaders are inept in their roles. I think every manager should be required to take a management class.
One boss I had was SO terrible, all of us employees approached our union president with a list of legitimate gripes. As a result, the company required that our boss take a leadership course. I left the organization before seeing the results of that course.