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This. After the first paper-work week, if I had a supervisor who didn't assign work to me, I would seek him out, if only to gauge his expectations.
by officemonkey 14y ago
This. After the first paper-work week, if I had a supervisor who didn't assign work to me, I would seek him out, if only to gauge his expectations.
- varelse 14y agoWork was assigned to me the first day and I'm a very self-motivated independent worker when given a task. That trait had served me well right up to joining Google whereupon it flamed out because I probably put too much time into learning google's tool chain. At the 3 month meeting, the manager openly admitted that while he managed two teams, he devoted most of his energy to the other one. So in his defense, he was overallocated. His other team was more interesting. But I think he already wanted me gone at that point so that wasn't an option.