Goal progress and Bad managers

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This week I've made some decent progress on website updates, made it to the gym both for yoga and cardio, made myself dinner, and made the Blueberry Angel Dessert from a post ysabetwordsmith made about coloured recipes for Valentine's day.

On an unrelated note, I really dislike bad managers. The one I've had to deal with this week sucks at handling people. No acknowledgement for jobs well done, and harping on all the things that should have been done instead. It makes me not want to do anything extra for them. It's a fast way to alienate all of your employees and create a toxic workplace. I wish I could fix it but I have no idea how.

ETA: I am watching an episode of The Closer right now, and a little boy ends up missing then dead after asking to ride his bike two summer camp. The camp was 2 blocks away, the boy was 9, and it looked like a decent neighbourhood. Everyone is acting like letting him ride his bike was a terrible failure on the mother's part. Assuming the boy demonstrated basic safety knowledge and responsibilty, isn't letting him ride his bike reasonable? Bubble wrapping children against every possible harm isn't practical, or helpful.

Comments

[technoshaman]

Conventional wisdom is if possible make friends with boss's boss. If this isn't possible, prepare your resume and start making connections outside the company.

My filkish brain notes that "bad manager" scans to "Smooth Criminal"...

[ng_moonmoth]

>> Bubble wrapping children against every possible harm isn't practical, or helpful. <<

What I've seen suggests it's actively harmful. Much like the "must have everything clean and sanitized" mania that was prevalent late last century or so led to increased likelihood of disorders in immune systems that had not been exposed to a sufficient variety of not-self while they were at their most flexible and adaptable.

Giving children independence and freedom of movement commensurate with their experience in same seems from here to be vital in fostering those same qualities as they come into their adulthood. The time period where this process was compromised by a feeling that one was not a proper parent if one ever let one's children out of sight of someone personally responsible for them matches up all too well with the rise in boomerang children for my taste.