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Please don't compare employee relationships to dog training. I've had a few encounters with poor managers (or potential managers) who wanted to treat me like a
by gwbas1c 9mo ago
Please don't compare employee relationships to dog training. I've had a few encounters with poor managers (or potential managers) who wanted to treat me like a dog.
I turned heel and ran in those cases. It's a bad analogy for managing people and should not be perpetuated.
- pastel8739 9mo agoIt sounds to me that they are actually saying that managing an employee is _not_ like training a dog
- 9rx 9mo agoIt is, rather, that managing a manager is like training a dog. As in, if you take a day off later in the week after feeling slighted as the article suggests people do, the manager will never realize that your absenteeism is a result of what they did and not just some other random life event that came your way, such as becoming sick. Much like training a dog, it posits that you need to give the feedback soon after in order for the association to become recognizable by the manager. Although it seems unlikely to me that anyone who is taking time off after feeling slighted is doing so as some kind of silent protest in hopes that the manager will change. I expect it is done to nurse the wound.
- amarant 9mo agoI read gps comment as the reverse: in their analogy, the manager is the dog. On a related note, I wouldn't mind being treated like a dog by someone who is up to date with modern dog training practices: instant rewards for success, no negative feedback(unless I'm being aggressive, but I think I can manage that much), and tons of belly and/or back rubs! Where do I sign?
- Izkata 9mo ago"Are we... bonding?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkGfF7LBlk4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkGfF7LBlk4
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