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You need to grow some balls, tell them to do what they're told (and paid for), or they're fired. It really is that simple. You're the boss, act like it. They'
by HardwareLust 4y ago
You need to grow some balls, tell them to do what they're told (and paid for), or they're fired.
It really is that simple. You're the boss, act like it. They're not your friends, they're your employees. Make it clear from the beginning what is expected of them, and then have the balls to follow through if they fail to meet your expectations. It's literally your job to manage them, so do it. If someone on your team isn't contributing, get rid of them.
- PaulHoule 4y agoWell, bullying is not something one person does to another person, it is something one person does to another person with the support of a group and that is what makes it the ‘social destruction of self’. Of course the senior person has the explicit support of the organization and has the advantage in this game but a junior who can recruit supporters can also wreak havoc. I learned a lot about organizational psychology from a high school science teacher who had a career in the Air Force, particularly the dangers of bypassing the chain of command. There are very good reasons to do it, in some places the chain of command does not work and being effective is all about being good at bypassing it. (A key skill in vendor management is recognizing pathology at vendors and bypassing it.) The most harrowing story in that article, though, is about a junior who has turned the manager’s supervisor against them. That’s the kind of situation that makes jumping the hierarchy so dangerous even though the usual case is that the person in the middle gets mad the hierarchy jumping on principle.