Not many. AR is likely the future for work related tasks. I know Apple has been working pretty hard on an AR headset for a while.
people, at least in what I do, don’t WANT to see your fucking ugly ass mug at 8 in the morning on a monday. That’s one of the features of remote work - I know a lot of companies have camera always on policies but mine doesn’t and it’s amazing. no engineer wants to shave every morning.
It’s a feature for workers but a bug for managers.
Do you think that or are you just commenting in general? I know they hate it, but I seriously cannot understand why. Yea, it lets me take calls in bed or walking my dog or whatever, stuff I maybe wouldn’t want to show on a web cam, but who gives a fuck? Why does that impede your ability to manage? Why do you need to physically see me?
I have seen entire teams managed quite well by almost pure chat-driven communication. You absolutely do not even need to be on the phone to be effective, let alone see another person - at least for what I do.
LMAO who is the audience for that?
lol I didn’t shave every morning when I wasn’t working from home. Being in science means you can look like a bum a lot of the time.
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They can’t keep their jobs if they have nothing to do. If everyone self organizes effectively and gets all their work from home, the horrible truth of bullshit jobs comes to life for too many people. Managers need something to put in their PowerPoint decks, they need bullet points that they can put check marks beside at the end of the year. So much of the workplace management is nothing but a kabuki theater act.
The forum consensus on managers makes me a little sad.
Things I’ve spent my time on in the last week.
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coaching sessions with a new leader to help them work through the big things they need to focus on. This is going to help us fix our sub par recruitment and onboarding processes.
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setting up a talent and mentoring program for high skill individual contributors across the company (they asked for this in an engagement survey, and the program is voluntary by application. Lots applied)
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task managing a redeployment of 40 folks when their project shut down. This also involved resolving a lot of conflict about where they should go, how it should be done, and how we make these decisions.
All of this was more effective because I could see faces while meeting and pick up on emotions and reactions.
This isnt writing code or building roads, but seems like important work to me shrug
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Lol I’m a manager too. I don’t think my whole day is a waste. But I see a lot of wasteful behavior. There’s a reason why so many mergers involve laying off half the managers.
I can see that and empathize with that - I have managed software people. In my most recent experience I feel a real lack of empathy and humanity in my coworker interactions and its probably related to a chat only culture, but w/e, for me personally I still prefer it. as an IC. if I was a manager I’d probably like to see people for dumb team building purposes but no one cares about that really
when I managed I felt like I did literally nothing and when I expressed that to managers above me they told me that was a sign I was managing well. lol.
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Time for some mandatory fun. THE MANDATORY EVENT WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES EVERYONE SMILE.
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There are good managers and bad managers, I think the reason the forum view of managers seems so bleak is because we don’t feel the need to qualify that all of our LOL MANAGERS posts are actually about the bad ones.
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lol I did one of these. an office hackey sack competition, whatever that game is with the holes where you throw the sacks in. became a weekly thing people seemed to enjoy. my biggest professional success
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The thing is, if you’re a decent person then people probably won’t hate these events even if they find them faintly irritating. But if you already have a team that finds the manager obnoxious and they try to fix the morale with mandatory fun then it’s just a kerosene-on-fire accelerant situation.
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My secret was beer.
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See, COOL MANAGER!
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these things are actually important sometimes. I did it because we were fighting burnout and we had only like 10 people in the company so losing even 1 was catastrophic at that stage. if people didnt like it i wasnt gonna keep doing it, but it was surprisingly popular. probably because if the choice is donking around with a hackey sack and beer or pretending to work, the clear choice will be the former.
it had teams and competition involved which I think is good for teams, but w/e, ive never had a manager in this day and age that ever did a good job of motivating his team, you’re supposed to somehow generate that motivation within yourself. for reasons. because you love the company, or something.
I mean. You caught yourself saying it, right?
“My recent poor experience was caused by a lack of empathy and poor relationship skills… also. Activities to improve empathy and relationships are a bad idea”
I didnt say theyre a bad idea. I just get why workers hate them
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One of the death spirals that managers can get them in is Workers overworked → Workers burned out → Managers mandate fun to raise morale → Workers feel like it’s just one more thing they need to do making them feel more overworked and round and round.