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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
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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Thats really not the case - I'm being honest.
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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
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?
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I've only been managing for a couple of years. Prior to that I was always in the same field and even at this business, but not in a management role. I understand the business but I'm on a steep learning curve when it comes to managing people. That's why I'm trying to find out about how other plants run their maintenance dept. I've never had to before, nor do I have any experience, there has never been a proper system here. Perhaps that's how it should stay too.
I try to keep my eyes and ears open and learn a little each day from the guys who actually do the work, but I have to be careful not be taken advantage of though and separate the crap from the truth.
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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
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.
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I've been learning this for a while now. Best paragraph so far I'd say. I've been adopting a policy of taking everything with a massive grain of salt and trying to really think things through before acting. I'd be the first t admit it's a steep learning curve, but everyone has to start somewhere.