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He's treating you like a cog in a manufacturing plant, which he can "optimize" at will. MBA programs often teach people that. He doesn't understanding creativ
by ww520 9y ago
He's treating you like a cog in a manufacturing plant, which he can "optimize" at will. MBA programs often teach people that. He doesn't understanding creative work or thinking heavy work "appear" to be non-working but it's essential.
- erikpukinskis 9y agoWhy does asking how someone is doing mean you're a cog, or that you're in trouble if you're still doing research? Part of what a supervisor does is track progress across a whole team so they can keep other parts of the group appraised. Another important job is helping people make tradeoffs between perfect and done as the situation on the ground changes. Both of those require asking "how's it going?"
- ww520 9y ago> I once had a manager ask me to email him a progress report every day; and every hour or two, he'd make a point of interrupting me to ask me "so how's <current_task> going?" Asking a developer's status progress everyday or every hour? That shows the manager has absolutely no clue how development works. Period. Developers don't need a manager to "help" them make tradeoff on a daily basis. Developers need managers to back the fuck off to let them alone to concentrate on the mentally taxing work at hand.