![]() That’s why I do what I do for a living.īut lighten up new boss! Even if you’re 100 percent right (and you could be, I’ll give you that), rushing in to make your team feel like a bunch of incompetents isn’t going to build trust, and it’s NOT going to get them excited about your vision, or your presence. I’m a serious person by nature, and sloppy work makes me nuts. Listen, nobody takes her job more seriously than I do. In other words, it’s not a good idea to imply to your team that whatever they were doing before you got there was entirely not up to snuff, and you’re going to fix it all right now, by golly, because you’re the head honcho, and you take your job very seriously. Building trustīut remember this, new boss - work was already in progress when you got here, and nobody was obligated (assuming it were even possible, which it isn’t) to do things the way you would have liked exactly in the manner you would have directed if only you’d been in charge. And so they might move a little too fast or be a little too quick to suggest changes or, heaven forbid, unfairly critique a process or procedure. Even the most accomplished managers can fall prey to starting that new job a little too anxious to prove to everyone that hiring them was the best management decisions ever. My job, to hear him tell it, is to make sure that when he’s ready to grace the family room with his presence, the television is already lit up with images he enjoys.īrand new bosses can be annoying like that, too. ]I get annoyed because his attitude suggests that my job is to keep the couch warm for him while viewing shows he likes even when he’s nowhere in sight and doing something completely different. Occasionally he’ll add, “ You weren’t really watching that, right?” when clearly I was.įive minutes ago this man was in a car driving home from work, in the kitchen eating a pre-dinner snack, or out in the back yard doing whatever it is men do in the back yard, but now here he comes, wanting to commander the best screen in the house.īut that’s not why I get annoyed. “Oh, you’re watching this again?” He’ll say, while grabbing up the remotes. My husband has this annoying habit of criticizing my television choices whenever he pops into the family room and sees I’m watching something he doesn’t like.
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