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I've been a supervisor. It's not all it's cracked up to be. The pay was better than the 'staff' but I also had to take a lot of crap from upper management. One woman called me at home on my free time to berate me about something that was beyond my control.
I thought after that, and a few other things, enough of this.
I've also been a classroom teacher, which is like being a manager.
I killed ethics and morals in my workplace so that when employees get to haughty I can tell them they are fired. With the new ideas I have, I don't need employees anymore. I can make more without them. Why do I need their lives broadcasted or their attitude?
My guess is that you would be in the bad manager column.
Being a supervisor/manager can be quite rewarding if you have a good group. If you have to manage people who hate each other, or hate their job, it can be the most miserable position. Having a good manager above you is also key. If you don't have both of those things, it had better pay really well!
Well, when the supervisor gave me some apps and resume's to look over, one of them was this guy with Dyslexia. I noticed very quickly his handwriting was bad and that he had mispelled a few words including the word Army which he spelled Amry. I put his app in a stack of "no", but my supervisor took it out, interviewed him and hired him. When I told the supervisor about the mispelled words, he brushed it off. This new warehouse guy ended up making our inventory counts an absolute nightmare......writing down wrong product locations and quantities that came into the warehouse. I didn't have the time, nor did the supervisor want me to, check on his counts or locations that he was writing down. Actually, I was very, very glad when the dude wound up getting fired for a drug test failure.
My brother has dyslexia. He was a State Trooper, but was fired for handing out IUD's.
I would like to think I would make a decent manager since I have had so many bad ones over the last 12 years that I would like to think I have learned from their poor management style. time will tell I suppose.
You really need to be a people person to seek out and respect the input of first line others as adding to the equation. You can neither get bogged down in committee inaction or in micromanagement insults neither of which work.
Leadership and management duties can be a bit different depending upon the size and structure of the intended accomplishment.
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