In my experience - first hand and watching others in the office - a boss only helps you succeed if you get along with them on a personal / friendship level, suck their dick, and win at the office politics game. Offices are like middle school all over again. I've seen so many hard-working and talented people get thrown aside or thrown under the bus because they didn't do one or any of those three things.
I work in logistics/inventory in a company full of confused stoners trying to implement a brand new inventory management system nobody bothered to learn how to use before it went live.
So instead of moving things around and tracking everything with 10 seconds worth of paperwork, I spend most of my day trying to figure out who fucked up earlier in the chain and made it so the system doesn't show the right quantities in the right locations. That way I can get those quantities fixed so I can transfer the correct amounts of products to the correct locations within the system, because now nobody can move anything unless it's accurately reflected in the system. There are like 10 potential points of failure and like 5 people who have to do everything right in the chain before it gets to me, and someone fucked something up about 80% of the time.
It used to be that they'd tell me what they wanted, then I'd go get it, then I'd write it down and someone else would sign off to verify it.
Now they tell me what they want and I discover that what they want doesn't exist at all in the system so I spend 45 minutes fixing it, then I deliver it. And then still do the paperwork anyway.
Does your boss put you in position to succeed?
Let me preface my answer with saying that i am self employed.
No.
No offense but you need to stop posting here.
I don’t have a job. I just watch teh Netflix, play vidya games and pull my dick all day.
In my experience - first hand and watching others in the office - a boss only helps you succeed if you get along with them on a personal / friendship level, suck their dick, and win at the office politics game. Offices are like middle school all over again. I've seen so many hard-working and talented people get thrown aside or thrown under the bus because they didn't do one or any of those three things.
If I make it to the end of a work week without murdering anyone, I have succeeded.
That's something poignant there. I've always tried to make my boss look good (i.e. with his bosses, other staff, vendors, etc), with the hope that he'll recognize that and the value that it brings. I think it's there on some level, but not sure how much.I don't put my boss in a position to succeed, so it's even.
You mean your boss is also a good boss, correct? Sounds like there's a good culture at your place that starts at the top and is carried throughout. Doesn't seem all that common, unfortunately.It’s the same way with my boss.
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.And here's something else, Bob... I have eight different bosses right now.
So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled; that, and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.
I put my time in the service industry as a retail manager for 12 years prior to a career change (read: lucky break), and in that world you don't get any support, training, or encouragement. I can't think of one boss I had during that time that I'm fond of or I felt support me in any meaningful way.