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You must be a delight to work for.... There's a phrase i'm thinking of, it starts with D and ends with Bag.
Employees who have a problem with what I said, do not work for me very long. If you think I am a DBag, then you obviously will never get it. This is reality.
I can see what everyone is doing. Doors and positioning be damned.
I also work in IT, and when i install a PC on someone desk/cube i just put it whatever i want to put it. They have no say where the PC goes (based on the location of power and network access)
At my work, my desk is set up with me facing out as I often need to be able to see if someone is at their desk for call transferring purposes, etc. I am in the HR department, but I work very closely with other recruiters and often the person will need to talk to 2-3 people in the office, so transferring the call to someone who is actually available saves time. So, I can see the whole office but none of them can see my computer screen.
My boss's computer screen is in the middle of the office, facing out.
Silly thread. Payrolls, employee issues, and business deals need to be kept confidential. I was placed in a tall cube. When I would work on the new staffing costs with the annual raise, my boss emphasized the importance of employee confidentiality. If somebody came over to my desk, I should close the file until they left.
Or you could just judge by the results they produce instead of micromanaging by looking at what's on their screens. As a manager, I don't care if they are running errands, surfing the net, on their phone, etc as long as the work is getting done and done well.
It's all part of many managers' hypocritical attitudes of "I can do whatever I want, but you the slaves cannot".
Amen! When you work on project driven assignments and always get your work done on time and correct, you don't need some micromanaging your every move. To the guy that posted he can watch what everyone is doing, is the problem
Employees who have a problem with what I said, do not work for me very long. If you think I am a DBag, then you obviously will never get it. This is reality.
Get what exactly? That you get your jollys off on some small amount of control you have over people?
Get what exactly? That you get your jollys off on some small amount of control you have over people?
Someone has issues. Where does it show I get my jollies off on control? I ensure my employees are doing their job, like a responsible boss. Sorry you can not understand that.
I could give a rat's patootie which way the manager's monitor faces. Just like he could'nt care less about mine. Of course, I do not work for a micro-manager. It's one of the reasons I left the management position I had for what I have now, which is more project based and I am like an in-house consultant. At the old place, the managers up from me didn't have a clue how to get the most out of people, so they spent their energy on meaningless drivel instead of pulling a good team together. One of the things they focused on was what was going on at a computer at any given time.
Where I am now, management just wants to see that the work is done. That is all. And the team is *much* more productive. I got tired of swimming upstream at the old place, the grass is way greener over here.
ETA: I don't mean to imply that the new team is more productive solely because they don't care what's on my computer screen. But it is indicative of the overall culture, and of the competence and confidence of the management.
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You must be a delight to work for.... There's a phrase i'm thinking of, it starts with D and ends with Bag.
