Manager and Boss
I saw a post on LinkedIn today telling how a person who got a 45% increase in salary and a lot of benefits such as working remotely, left the company, after being called useless and exposed to toxic environment and management. The post then went on to say that people left not because of the pay but the people yada yada. The post sounds too simplistic and sure enough one of the comments called out the OP and said it was a made up story to get engagement (to put it mildly).
Why would you pay a whole lot of money and devalue your resource? It’s like buying an iPhone and saying it is a piece of shit. Sure some people don’t like using iOS and realise after buying one, or forced to use one by their company, but why did you buy it in the first place (excluding the case it is a company’s phone)? In the case of the employee, why did you hire him in the place. Secondly, if a company in this post-covid-everyone-come-back-to-office-please era is willing to offer remote working, I find it hard to imagine they would allow all those autonomy but suppress their staff’s intellect at the same time. In short, I agree the post is just a lie.
Sure there could be the case where companies change due to management change, but that is not the point of the post. The post wanted to say that people leave work because their managers are bad and bossy. Funnily enough I have a similar point but in slightly different view; a good manager makes people want to stay and work longer. Sound the same? Maybe. I’m just saying that it might be a perk instead of a necessity. I am fortunate enough to have that perk as today during a performance review with my manager, we managed to discuss about my work in a candid manner and also my request for certain helps are entertained. Of course this doesn’t happen all the time, as the company is still a business and my dad doesn’t own the business, but it’s good that some requests are not shot down at face value.
Anyways I wish you the best in your work and the ‘perk’ of a good manager, or even you being one, so that your work can contribute to the improvement of humanity. And stop posting lies on LinkedIn.
Thank you for reading.