10 Ways to Make Your Boss Love You

This is great advice, I have been the manager and one thing I learned was to know what my employees job is and how it should be done. I cannot give expectations to an employee that I had no idea what they did.

1. I was hired to a job no one understood and it was do this with their customers or lose the customer.

2. I have done the job and extremely well, but since no one wants to deal with what I do nor try to understand what I do they pass it off as un important.

3. The job I do is finance procedure but after a year I was shifted to the sales area to accomdate another function that was somewhat in line with mine position.

4. That has created for me to have for 5 years that did not know and had not interest in and did not want to know or take interest in my job and therefore I did not get any reviews for 4 of those years because the manager did not now how or what to do on a review after the first one.

5. the new manager wants to know but the function of my job interferes with the time element of her job which is sales manager not finance issues. while she attempts to understand and does understand some things she shows frustration and pushes me aside.

6. the first review was put me in a catogory or normal which I am not because I create and resolve issues that no one wants to do and I go beyond the scope of my position to do so and even tho I get the normal email saying thanks, it does not get addressed in my review now that I have one.

All you hear these days is how to please a manager, how to be a better emplyee. How about a company listening to the employees and learn how to manage the position the employee is in.

All managers I have been under only pays attention to those who pat them on the backs and strokes their ego.

When I was a manager I applied myself to each employee even if it meant working overtime to understand their position and help them improve and MORE THAN THAT acknowledge them as being important. I have come to realize that most employees need just to be appreciated and acknowledge they are important to a company.

Ann Lawrence of AL 12:02PM January 25, 2012