Job was going great until new regional manager came along
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I've been with my current employer for 14 months.
Till recently all has gone well. Directors are a bit like the Sopranos in that all other shortcomings are forgiven provided you are a good earner, boats aren't rocked and issues are dealt with satisfactorily before it gets to their level. I was such a good earner in fact that when our very hands off styled regional manager decided to leave I was offered the position.
I refused for two reasons. Firstly I had the insight to realise being a good surveyor does not make make me a good manager and secondly I am aware of a lot of nasty commercial challenges that are sitting on the not too distant horizon.
When a new outsourced regional manager appeared he was initially friendly. Sadly guy has a bit of an ego and this week whilst having a chat in his office he told me he knew I was offered and refused his job and that he wasn't happy with the advice he was given: "leave him and his team in peace and their contracts will make you money a solve their own problems".
What really shocked me was the fact he then went on to tell me "I'm not going to have a problem with you but I can guarantee you are going to have problems with me".
I haven't seen such poor people skills and a high confrontational ego led management style since the 1980s.
Till recently all has gone well. Directors are a bit like the Sopranos in that all other shortcomings are forgiven provided you are a good earner, boats aren't rocked and issues are dealt with satisfactorily before it gets to their level. I was such a good earner in fact that when our very hands off styled regional manager decided to leave I was offered the position.
I refused for two reasons. Firstly I had the insight to realise being a good surveyor does not make make me a good manager and secondly I am aware of a lot of nasty commercial challenges that are sitting on the not too distant horizon.
When a new outsourced regional manager appeared he was initially friendly. Sadly guy has a bit of an ego and this week whilst having a chat in his office he told me he knew I was offered and refused his job and that he wasn't happy with the advice he was given: "leave him and his team in peace and their contracts will make you money a solve their own problems".
What really shocked me was the fact he then went on to tell me "I'm not going to have a problem with you but I can guarantee you are going to have problems with me".
I haven't seen such poor people skills and a high confrontational ego led management style since the 1980s.
Polite M135 driver said:
Sounds like a strange approach.
He's a strange strange guy.Imagine someone with David Brent' s ability to make a whole room cringe only without the attempts at humour or any kind of attempt to be popular or likeable.
The first time he addressed us as a team I looked straight into the eyes of the director who signed him and gave my very best "WTF" look. I know this guy well enough to judge the way he dropped his gaze to his desk the matter, at present, is closed.
Edited by Tannedbaldhead on Sunday 9th December 15:47
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