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I've been a manager for a long time and I'm a good one. Some people will always be more skilled and productive than others, until the day when all employees are robots. However, I keep aware of this and try to hold people to general productivity and quality standards. I set the standards the same for everyone. I give them examples of what is acceptable performance, what is good performance and what is excellent performance. Then I evaluate them accordingly. This is because I give a heck and do my job. Many managers don't.
Of course, there are times when managers are addressing things to the extent laws/liability/company policies allow, and you aren't aware of it.
I always have to clean up bad management whenever I start a new job. I always inherit crappy situations which the previous manager didn't bother to address. For example, I kid you not, I once had a minority employee who had been kept in a higher level pay grade; the previous manager said you can't do anything to her because she's a minority. Well that is just silly and insults minorities if you ask me. I held her to the same requirements others in her job classification were held to. Although I provided her with reference materials, training, support and even step-by-step instructions, she crapped out rather quickly because it was about 3 levels over her head. I found her another job so she wouldn't get canned, and of course she was totally witchy about it. Horrible woman.
Why is anyone paid to "cruise," regardless of time spent on the job? If I were the CEO, that's fat that would need to be cut.
I didn't cruise because of "time spent on the job". I could cruise because my long-time, well trained, very capable managers no longer needed me to micromanage their departments or well trained and capable employees.
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