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At the end of the day when you're management you're on the company's side despite not being an owner of the company. This might explain the contradiction you fe
by 26fingies 3y ago
At the end of the day when you're management you're on the company's side despite not being an owner of the company. This might explain the contradiction you feel when you get promoted to management. If you're in a union shop you would not be able to be a part of the union, as you are a representative of the company and not the labor force.
So you can (and should) be friendly with the staff you manage but you have to remember your position is fundamentally antagonistic to theirs. You are not their friend, you are not their family member. You wield incredible power over their lives and you need to remember and respect that.
- paulryanrogers 3y agoIs management mutually exclusive with union membership? If one is not an owner then I can see it being possible, however challenging.
- 26fingies 3y agoI think any manager with the ability to hire, fire, promote, demote, give raises is going to be problematic to fit into a labor union just because they're by default "on the other side of the table". But maybe low level supervisors without unilateral power to do those things could fit into a union. I don't really know, I'm not an expert on unions.
- komadori 3y agoSometimes there's a separate union for managers, like the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), or the Association of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers (ALACE).
- cat_plus_plus 3y agoNot if you are willing to quit or be fired before exploiting or misleading anyone. This does create a survivorship bias, but at least on individual level you always have a choice.