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Generally when you have a situation like that, with high rates of bullshit excuses, it is because the company makes them feel like worthless pieces of shit or there is bullying behaviour somewhere.
People rarely call it in because they are workshy.
Also, any signs of depression or other issues like alcoholism or substance abuse with any of these people?
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other issues like alcoholism or substance abuse with any of these people?
The real pros only phone it in Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, and always for two days in a row. That way, nobody thinks you're on the sauce.
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Or as in the last time I took over a medium sized team, the former boss had fabricated accusations against five people forcing them to resign or be fired by senior management. And they wondered why attendance and morale was so low.
In one instance, the previous manager had claimed that he was assaulted by a colleague. I smelled bullshit, spotted a CCTV camera that might have captured it and managed to prove that it did not happen. Its amazing how blind to a rotten situation people can be.
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The worst thing is that instead of owning up to their error of judgement, the board still scapegoated the fired/resigned employees and refused to give them references. Which is why I resigned.
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Managing people sucks. Especially taking over an existing team.
Worst work scene I ever had to deal with was my last job. I inherited a team from someone who worked like a dog covering up for their shitness for years. He was actually a good mate of mine who i'd hired and promoted several times over the years. He eventually got to the same level as me and I ended up taking over the department he'd built up from scratch when he left the company. When I came in, it was the fag end of a 6 year framework. All the fun work had been done and people were looking for exit strategies. Morale was fucked.
I came in and told them that i'd support them in any way they needed but that I wouldn't be working weekends to finish off their work like my predecessor had. He was single, lived 10 minutes from the office and was a pathological people pleaser. He'd basically been propping them up for years. I explained that wasn't what i'd be doing. I lived out of town, had a young family and that i needed them to pitch in with me to share the load.
The team consisted of absent one long term sicknote, one HR nightmare who was forever being accused of bullying or going off in tears about something. They were furious because they thought my job should have been theirs. Me coming had denied them a promotion. I had two lazy disinterested consultants and one senior consultant who had basically set up and co-managed the department with my predecessor. It was his baby. There was also one total lost cause raggydoll of a seatwarmer who we just sort of left in the corner because nobody could figure how to get any value out of them despite years of trying. The saving grace was one brilliant young apprentice who I was trying to protect from the rest of the bad influences, but the fifth column senior consultant guy had him well and truly under his sway.
That smarmy cnut would undermine me constantly, keep stuff from me and complain that he was overworked and unloved. Urgh it was a lost fucking cause form the start really. HR nightmare and patronising consultant would be in constant text contact with their old manager throughout the day complaining about me. I once found out that Smarmy consultant had taken my entire team out for dinner and drinks without me. Another time, my boss came over and asked if I was coming out with the team tonight... no I said, what's the occasion? It was my ex-protege and ex good friend's birthday drinks. My whole team was going with my boss and my (by now very much ex) good friend their old boss. I wasn't invited.
At that point I decided I had to go. On my last day in the office, the traditional leaving presentation and card thing was presided over by a random director because my boss had forgotten that was my last day and my entire team, all seven of them were either on leave or had called in sick. My leaving "present" was a brown paper envelope with £32 in loose change in it.
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Nah, some people are just lying cunts, I've caught both of these guys out before... More performance reviews and PIPs!!
I'm a pretty OK boss, I treat our guys like I'd expect to be treated myself... Lots of communication, checking how they're going, etc... On a side note, my boss is about to get the push, this will make all our lives much easier... He's a lovely man but a useless fucking manager...
And everyone is depressed and abuses substances here, it's a very puzzling thing when the standard of living is so high and paradise is right on your bloody doorstep... Devolution right before your eyes...
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Ha, yeah. It was not a fun year. Got what i needed out of it though in terms of experience.
Love where i am now.
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My boss had been piling more and more stuff on me up 'til November when I really couldn't cope anymore, was struggling big time, permanent headache, phone clamped to my ear all day, chasing my own tail trying to get shit done... He asked me if I was coping and if I needed any help... I told him I was very unhappy, I was drowning in work and that I was looking for another job, he turned around and pointed at the number for the freephone helpline that was scrawled on the little novelty blackboard we have hanging by the fridge...
That was the moment I stopped giving a fuck, been much, much happier ever since...
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Sounds shite fella. Where are you working at the moment?
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It's much better now... I'm at a little disability service provider, we're about to be gobbled up by a bigger organisation, we don't know who yet... My life will improve immensely when/if that happens, I might even get to do the job I'm supposed to be doing... We're small so there's a lot of responsibilty creep...
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Flipping fuck. I have a team of two now. That's plenty. Good luck bud.
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