andylegate
Well-Known Member
Ever worked at a place that was just fine at first, but then down the line the boss starts to micromanage everything? It drives me up the wall! To the point where even comming home and having one of my homebrews still doesn't settle my nerves!
We're a small business (all of 10 employees!). We're an electronics repair facility that repairs the electronic equipment that the cable companies use to give you cable. We fix stuff all the way down to the componet level. The owner of the company has this very bad habit of comming into the lab and running it, instead of letting the lab manager run the lab (thank god I don't have his job, I would have been fired quite a while ago since I won't put up with that).
The lab manager is one of those "Yes Men" and won't put up even a token argument with her about something. Of course if I speak up about it, I'm seen as "Causing a Problem".
There have been many times that I've pointed out that something is not going to work, or a better way to do something, but tend to get blown off or not listened to. Needless to say, they are having many problems now due to this.
She is the owner, so yes, she does have say in how she wants her company to run. But a wise person who made millions from a small store he bought (Sam Walton of Walmart) once said: "Listen to your employees. They are the best resource you could ever have."
I could quit (and they would have kittens about that since I'm the only one that knows how to do many things there, from my 20+ years of experience) as I don't have to absolutely have this job. But finding another job is no easy task nowadays, and even though we could still pay our bills, things would be tight and I'd have to quit homebrewing for a while (NEVER! DO YOU HEAR ME? NEVER I SAY!!!!! lol!).
I'm seriously thinking about freelancing though. Don't know how well that would work. Y'all know people that need their fiberoptic transmitter and recievers fixed? How about their headend systems? (that's modulators and satellite receivers). Line equipment?
We're a small business (all of 10 employees!). We're an electronics repair facility that repairs the electronic equipment that the cable companies use to give you cable. We fix stuff all the way down to the componet level. The owner of the company has this very bad habit of comming into the lab and running it, instead of letting the lab manager run the lab (thank god I don't have his job, I would have been fired quite a while ago since I won't put up with that).
The lab manager is one of those "Yes Men" and won't put up even a token argument with her about something. Of course if I speak up about it, I'm seen as "Causing a Problem".
There have been many times that I've pointed out that something is not going to work, or a better way to do something, but tend to get blown off or not listened to. Needless to say, they are having many problems now due to this.
She is the owner, so yes, she does have say in how she wants her company to run. But a wise person who made millions from a small store he bought (Sam Walton of Walmart) once said: "Listen to your employees. They are the best resource you could ever have."
I could quit (and they would have kittens about that since I'm the only one that knows how to do many things there, from my 20+ years of experience) as I don't have to absolutely have this job. But finding another job is no easy task nowadays, and even though we could still pay our bills, things would be tight and I'd have to quit homebrewing for a while (NEVER! DO YOU HEAR ME? NEVER I SAY!!!!! lol!).
I'm seriously thinking about freelancing though. Don't know how well that would work. Y'all know people that need their fiberoptic transmitter and recievers fixed? How about their headend systems? (that's modulators and satellite receivers). Line equipment?
