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How's your day been?

A few months ago I mentioned that I got "benched"....not fired; felt like it in some ways, but when you don't have any loss in pay, I know I am very fortunate.

Well, finally sat down the boss that was not happy with the way I run the organization. These are my words, but i truly believe this is what he was saying: the organization has the appearance that I stifle them. Well, will say one thing, at least now I have something to go back, think about, and look how I lead. I have already mentioned this to someone that knows me very well and she said she can see where someone could draw that conclusion. That bummed me...…..always hurts when you find out you are not sending the message you thought you were.

So, at least I am back into a position where I can get productive again. I have had some tasking (I have been running a software organization for 6 years, been part of the organization for 19 years) but now I can ramp it up and jump in finally. Back to doing program management work and I guess the good news is that I don't have to supervise anymore. I just have to take that positive, learn, and move on. Just wish someone had said something in the past 2 years instead of it getting to this. Gee...…..

have a great Thursday everyone. Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers from before. They have helped me stay more or less on an even keel through the past 3 months....
 
Garry,

I feel for you and have been in your situation. Managing people in professional groups is hard and getting harder every year. Pros always want to lead rather than follow, even when their job is to take instructions and follow them. Many years ago, a wise senior manager told me that the secret to successful managing is to let the team guide themselves until they start to drive off the road. At that point, you steer them back to the center line and then let them try again. That worked for me but I had to learn to trust my team as much as I trusted my own judgment. That was hard many times.
 
FranklinWorkshops said:
Garry,
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Larry, thank you so much. You don't know how close your words are to the feedback i received. Wow!!! Funny thing is, I, in my mind, was allowing my team to go at it. I have confided in one person and she believes I allow that but my "appearance" (body language, tone?????) contradict what i truly feel. Am really going to use this to reflect and try to be better. Just wish I had this feedback 18 months ago with this guy......

thank you Larry, thank you!!

Love this forum...…...
 
Garry, not been in your direct situation, but similar circumstances. The hardest part of being a supervisor is that the interpersonal relationship between workers is instantly altered. The supervisor may think they are treating the workers as equals in regards to skills and work performed, but the workers will almost never have the same perception. To you, they are coworkers, but to them, you are the " boss" who has control over them.

The situation usually becomes even worse with generational differences. The twenty and thirty somethings in the workforce now are vastly different than we were at the same age. Not good or bad, but different, and I've found they don't respond to work stresses the same as "we" did at the same age.

Supervisory roles are probably more difficult now than at any previous point in time.

Don't waste your time and energy looking back, but spend your time looking forward, and applying the knowledge you've gained. Also take time to remind yourself that your job doesn't define you, it's just the thing you do to earn enough money to do the things you want, with the people that matter to you.
 
Ice day, gorgeous weather. New printer setup for wife even though she can’t get connected to it yet, replaced the seals in my motorcycle air lift (lot easier than I first thought), then out to our 5 acres for my mental and physical rehab limbing up more trees. Just a nice day you know....... even saw a nice flock of turkeys while I was “resting” from the chain saw.

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I was outside all day installing an invisble dog fence. The moles chewed through the wire I had used for the one I had installed years ago. I put the wire in 1/2" pex tubing this time. and the wire is nice thick gauge stuff. I hooked it up and it works!
here's some pix I took along my travels around the yahd....
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of course it would be shy an inch.
son ofa!!!

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both red lights are on!!! woooo.

So tomorrow I can finish it up, stick in the white flags all along where its in the ground for a visual for Burl to see, hey, don't go past the flags or you're gunna get zapped.
Man my hands and shoulders are sore!!!
 
ripjack13 said:
I was outside all day installing an invisble dog fence. The moles chewed through the wire I had used for the one I had installed years ago. I put the wire in 1/2" pex tubing this time. and the wire is nice thick gauge stuff. I hooked it up and it works!
here's some pix I took along my travels around the yahd....
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of course it would be shy an inch.
son ofa!!!

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both red lights are on!!! woooo.

So tomorrow I can finish it up, stick in the white flags all along where its in the ground for a visual for Burl to see, hey, don't go past the flags or you're gunna get zapped.
Man my hands and shoulders are sore!!!
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Here it works well for children too.
 
Cool you named your dog Burl. The lights work bit does it come through the pipe to the collar?
Put it on your neck and go outside see if it works
 
Eric Rorabaugh said:
Cool you named your dog Burl. The lights work bit does it come through the pipe to the collar?
Put it on your neck and go outside see if it works
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I tested it. It works. I held it in my hand. Yep. It zaps....woooo
 
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What would happen if Burl managed to get past the Zap, and then try to return??? ............... Jerry (in Tucson)
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She gets zapped...twice.
But, she is never left alone in my yard. Its not a babysitter. It's to keep her from being on a lead, and takin people heads off when she runs around. She knows the boundaries and is very obedient of them and me.
 
My day is going to be great. I am friends with a married couple and they both came to me separately asking for a bowl for their 5th anniversary. I just gave a nice small Teak ring bowl to the husband, who I work with, and tonight the wife is going to pick up a Sapeley bowl for their dinner table center piece. This makes me happy they like my work enough to give them as gifts to each other.
 
I just had to fill out a questionnaire to make a steel delivery at Detroit Edison. This is all due to the Coronavirus, I never had to do that before.
 
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