PearlsofWisdom wrote:
Depends on what the job is, but most people are taught to do things on their own or to follow someone's lead, but I agree, with conditions, it can be very trying and get very hard to satisfy every one element of a company's prerogative to achieve something. The point is, nobody ever shows you how to do things, so you just end up doing them yourself and on your head be it if it goes wrong. Usually someone pre empts somebody up to fail so they can get a better response from their site lead. All I've ever been told are lies and criticisms about how slow I am, when I'm a bit of a perfectionist anyway.. I start ahead with clear doubts occasionally about how to do something, but eventually it usually works, it all slots in. If someone tells me something and I think its boring, I often shut off about it too, as I like to visualise where somebody has picked up, it makes it easier to continue. But these days, the workplace is all about people micromanaging others and deciding their place for them. I maintain, the belief, that the day that somebody starts yelling at you to tell you what you should do, is time to press a big discrimination rights pad into their thick outstretched hands.
I can assure you that my supervisor, when I worked there, never set anyone up to fail. On the contrary, she actually stood up for the employees against higher management. However, I think she did do things the way HQ said just to please them at times when she thought it was more a bureaucratic problem than a blatantly unfair problem (i.e. some of the company's scoring on people's performance reviews.)
10 Dec 2017, 4:24 pm
