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“Fuck it I’m going to PDF this bitch"
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“pls fix” or “this needs a lot more work” with no other context provided
The most irritating thing there is, give an objective or don’t send anything at all
Early in my career at a PR firm, a VP I had would always forward emails to the team admin asking her to print the email out.
The laziest thing I have seen so far is a manager who never ran their own staff meetings. They always assigned one of their leads to run it for them. This person rarely spoke in their own staff meeting. If a person was new to the organization or someone from the outside looking in, you would never know who the manager was. They didn't even send out the emails to their own people. Someone else did that for them using their own signature. They were like a shadow manager.
My last boss (CTO of a FTSE100 firm) used to do this. He also recused himself from any major budgetary or contractual meetings and left us as his direct reports to figure it out. The few times he spoke externally he used notecards and came off poorly. But he had been there a long time and that company valued “loyalty” above competence.
Currently working at a business venture backed by a billionaire where he’s made the baffling decision to staff the entire leadership with pale, male, and stale academics.
My manager, Oxbridge with bizarrely little online presence, abjectly refuses to manage. Instead I was told to “get approvals from your peers” before doing anything. My peers all have zero knowledge of my domain - some openly admit so and tell me to do whatever I think best, others dodge me by claiming to be too busy.
There is no clear team strategy or direction other than rebranding every 6 months.
His salary is in the millions per year too. 🤦
A good deal of fast director and above ( you remember when people were leaving jobs every 6-12 months doing, creating nothing then got promoted at the next company and on and on.)
Well, those folks are now running companies with zero knowledge so you all will do all the work for them just like their parents (boomers) who will use you up, never promote you because it would show their lack of knowledge telling you to move lateral to gain experience. Then they will tell you need to be more specialized. You will do this until you retire and then now watch then next generation getting screwed.
But hey that’s just me.
Boomers stayed where they could. I am talking the older millennials who job skipped and did nothing in each job. Not their fault, if I had the chance I would have but now we have a good deal of executive level leadership with little to no actual experience.
Jeff stated he plans on removing “manager “ level as they only want to make it their own. In my eyes those ideas generated at the ic and management levels drive innovation in a company not director and above.
Lazy is forwarding other people’s emails without any comments and somehow leaving before everyone else except at Happy hour
Also Amazon Jeff announced a couple of weeks ago the removal of his management level since all they want to do is put their own hand in it rather than execute as required.
I don’t know about your company but the worst ideas have come from the top and most good ideas or changes come from the management level. All of those lazy leaders better learn their employees jobs but quick.
“XYZ who is in copy will take care of it” … no context whatsoever, not even a quick breakdown of the issue 🥲
No leadership! Scheduling and delaying 1on1s in perpetuity