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From my experience this has seemed to have been a reoccurring theme. They seem to be more intimidated, by their most hard working competent knowledgable workers who always get things done and with great efficiency, don't cause problems or drama at work and even seem to be extra hard on them. Opposed to the more least competent employees who they don't seem to view as much of a threat that may cause more problems and drama?
I don't think they're so much intimidated by hard-working/competent/educated employees (as in these employees are going to usurp them from their position), but they're worried these same employees will not want to "wait their turn" (or more commonly phrased, "pay their dues") when moving up the ladder and instead will choose to disrespect the hierarchy they have in place.
A good manager is not intimidated by such. Hard workers make the team look good, which in turn helps everyone on that team, including the manager. You're part of a team, keep that in mind.
From my experience this has seemed to have been a reoccurring theme. They seem to be more intimidated, by their most hard working competent knowledgable workers who always get things done and with great efficiency, don't cause problems or drama at work and even seem to be extra hard on them. Opposed to the more least competent employees who they don't seem to view as much of a threat that may cause more problems and drama?
No!
Bad managers may be intimidated.
A good manager wants their employees to be like this.
I've never seen this, personally, but I've also never seen anyone gunning to get into the management position by overthrowing the manager. Both, to me, seem to be a small percentage of reality, blown out of proportion to support a specific narrative.
Smart managers build teams of smart people, and give credit to those individuals when due. I think it's possible that people who don't give credit to others, or fear others, may be a group who were promoted without good cause - and they're well aware of the fact that they're in over their heads. I can't be certain - but that's what I suspect.
A bad manager who does a bad job themselves may be intimidated as that type of person is the type who just sits back and skates and doesn't work hard. A good hardworking accomplished manager would appreciate a good employee as they make him look better as a manager.
From my experience this has seemed to have been a reoccurring theme. They seem to be more intimidated, by their most hard working competent knowledgable workers who always get things done and with great efficiency, don't cause problems or drama at work and even seem to be extra hard on them. Opposed to the more least competent employees who they don't seem to view as much of a threat that may cause more problems and drama?
I've witnessed this sort of behavior over and over again as well during the past 20+ years, but also noticed that it seems to be a characteristic of primarily of people born in the early-mid 1950s. Folks born earlier or later than that (ballparkish pre-1953 or post 1957) seem more "normal" to me - that is, they act as if they're trying to put together a great team, and don't mind if that team has some stars on it. Those middle-1950s folks? They (with a few exceptions sprinkled here and there) seemed to be the embodiment of "ME firs"t, and doing anything they could to sabotage potential up and coming employees, regardless if those employees were even a potential threat to them or not. They loved to hire and surround themselves with "C" and "D" players, tolerated "B" players, and would be as ruthless as they could to any "A" players, until those "A" players would eventually get fed up and move elsewhere.
A good manager wants their employees to be like this.
This.
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