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Re: 8 rules to discourage your employees

El Estres — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:20:57 -0000

Excellent writing!!! It gives me some points which I need to consider in my company. I would like to thank the ariter.

Re: 8 rules to discourage your employees

SEO Miami — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:22:33 -0000

all these are the off tract in most of the companies; but we should come forward to stand against it through the organizational framework!

Re: 8 rules to discourage your employees

eddiepetosa — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:59:22 -0000

Sever their tools. This is one of the rules my previous employer chose to respect. I'm working with linux dedicated servers so performance is a must when ti comes to the computers I work on. My boss used to tell me he hasn't got the budget to replace the old computers but expected me to work on them even if I was limited.

Re: 8 rules to discourage your employees

sanader — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:15:44 -0000

hah i knew this wud happen, thanx.

Re: 8 rules to discourage your employees

johannabartley — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:33:05 -0000

Unfortunately, yes. I think it's the bad economy. Or maybe putting pressure on your employees can make them work harder and probably outrank their superiors. Who knows, the fact is this is a well known technique applied by the management.

Re: 8 rules to discourage your employees

tnomeralc web design toys — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:39:01 -0000

this is happening on every company is it?

Re: 8 rules to discourage your employees

iRat — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:13:36 -0000

I agree with your rules

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kibug — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:43:30 -0000

Sadly, this is true in public education as well. YCJUSD, esp. HR dept., I'm looking at you.

Re: 8 rules to discourage your employees

no one — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:58:35 -0000

I think you missed the 'r'

Xora

Re: 8 rules to discourage your employees

none — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:57:59 -0000

You mean Xora?

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none — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:56:42 -0000

Xoa!

Re: 8 rules to discourage your employees

ISD — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:18:56 -0000

Man you work for logica too?

Re: 8 rules to discourage your employees

george — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:28:38 -0000

um.. where can we read about the true story this is based on please?

Re: 8 rules to discourage your employees

I heart management — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:02:32 -0000

My bosses started me on a project to collect data from six different databases (on slow remote systems far far away), combine them in one location and create a user interface for managers to see all employee data in one place. It is a lot of work.

First the project was given to an analyst who could not do the job. Infact, all they did was create some folders on a shared drive and name the folders after the database sources. When I took over the project, the folders were empty. Nothing had been done and the original analyst had worked on the project for two months already. The original analyst talked her boss into recruiting me to "finish it" which really meant "start and finish it".

I have been working the project for 3 weeks and have collected 11 pay periods worth of data from 6 different systems, identified and resolved multiple problems in the way certain employee data is stored, updated existing data tables so that various systems work together when aggregated and I am about a week or two from having the full thing up and running with a full user interface.

What did the chief analyst do to me the other day? She had the analyst who was originally assigned the task (and did nothing) come into my office and demand an update on "where I was on the database" so they could "justify the hours I am spending" on the giant project they did not "analyze" to being with. I speant an hour and a half explaining everything I had done, the problems I had run into (and resolved) and how far away I was from completing the project.

I should mention I am "on loan" to these people and don't even work for them regularly.

I was pissed. I went home early. I had planned on working a couple of hours extra because I had a lot of momentum on a particular part of the project.

Great management!

Re: 8 rules to discourage your employees

Matt — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:35:58 -0000

Do you work for Microsoft too? Seriously, i work for MS and our team is each-and-every point you just listed. Reading this was pretty depressing.

Re: 8 rules to discourage your employees

Habee — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:50:42 -0000

Yeah, "proactive" means "make sure nothing bad happens or it's on you."

Re: 8 rules to discourage your employees

322FT3W — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:48:25 -0000

make every mistake an employee makes "profoundly obvious" and point out mistakes with a look on your face like said employee just "killed your dog."

Re: 8 rules to discourage your employees

Kelly — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:54:07 -0000

LOL. Please don't make posts like this - my boss doesn't need anymore help discouraging me!

Re: 8 rules to discourage your employees

a name — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:18:27 -0000

By the way, demoralizing employees is a common and deliberate strategy used by employers to get people to quit instead of firing them. If your boss is making your life an nightmare, it's probably on purpose. The best way to get back at them is to be completely calm and relaxed, at the very least it forces them to fire you.

Re: 8 rules to discourage your employees

a name — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:14:54 -0000

God I hate the bug thing. If you introduce "critical" status, then everything gets bumped up. If astounds me that some people can't seem to understand that marking everything critical doesn't help you decide which issue to address next. You have to forget the status thing and get them to list the tasks in the order they need them done.

Re: 8 rules to discourage your employees

legion — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:35:04 -0000

Pick out minority workers. any. Make sure the ones you choose are not very good workers. Keep rewarding them and letting non-minority workers that the ones rewarded are a model of what ought to be done.

Eye attractive young workers up and down while talking to older ugly women workers and be curt while smiling at the cutie.

Leave work early on Friday and say you are working at home. Then call in from a bar where the music is loud and ask how things are going.

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flapper — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:24:07 -0000

damn...........thats the same tactics used at my workplace.

Re: 8 rules to discourage your employees

Mike — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:40:21 -0000

Spoken like someone who has never had any serious management responsibilities. Nice view from the bottom.

Re: 8 rules to discourage your employees

Dick C. Flatline — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:32:23 -0000

That's pretty much the way MOST American corporations "do business" these days.

Oh, you left one out: Pay the people who actually do the work peanuts, so you can give lots of perks and bonuses to the morons at the top for their "bright ideas".

Re: 8 rules to discourage your employees

anthony pittarelli — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:24:54 -0000

Ah yes that is what I have been doing wrong.

Anthony Pittarelli