It’s wild how much better work can be sans management.
I even basically like mine but life is so much easier when she’s too busy to ask questions or offer input.
100%… I like my boss too, but he doesn’t understand that he is micromanaging me and that things end up taking longer. I don’t think this is a personality issue only. I think it is lack of experience and knowledge about management.
I don’t know about your organization but I’m a dev in a very large non profit and our managers rise through the dev ranks. Which sort of makes sense but is also kind of bizzare. “You’re good at coding, why not organizing and managing people now?” Especially funny as most of my team are lovely people but social interactions are not my team’s strong suit to put it mildly.
Yeah the workers becoming managers is always a double edged sword in my experience. They understand the work, but there is deep value with management/leadership training (which they often don’t have).
Ha I know exactly what you mean with social interactions not being the team’s strongest suit!
I also work as a dev, but for an academic working group (not software or compsci).
That’s all good, but I just want to do my job and leave work at work. I don’t want to be contacted on my free-time. Academics don’t understand this way of thinking.
