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Originally Posted by rinkydink
Not in the slightest. I have a million things to do and I've got no desire to get involved in this guys work day.
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Sounds like you have arrived at an answer. Maybe you "have a million things to do" because you are already taking this level of interest in too many things already.
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Originally Posted by rinkydink
The difficulty is, if he really is busy making puppies and the other guys see it and tell me, it's a problem if they see me ignore it. One bad apple and all that. They are going to start asking themselves why they work hard when this guy gets paid to screw around.
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I'm not trying to bust your balls or anything, but just how long have you been managing at your current level? I assume you are a second or third level manager (from your reference to his "immediate supervisor"). What is your background prior to this position? Specifically, were you working in or around any of these shops in this manufacturing facility it sounds like you are now managing?
You have to understand that coworkers "telling tales" of one anothers' time wasting, screwing off, "cheating" the company, and on and on is part and parcel of how all such facilities operate. Everyone is a first team all star in their own book, while all of their coworkers are lazy, inattentive louts whose work only gets done thanks to the particular hero with whom you are currently speaking. You need to learn to seperate the wheat from the chaff. Often the guy who gets the most done, and has therefor earned the most leeway in how he gets it done, is the one they gripe about the most.