RE: Leadership

["Dugas, Andrew" <ADugas -at- eTranslate -dot- com>]

Or as we used to say at one unlucky place I worked:

"The beatings will continue until morale improves."



-----Original Message-----
From: Jane Carnall [mailto:jane -dot- carnall -at- digitalbridges -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 7:37 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Leadership


I'm sure we can all do the "I had a bad manager" stories....

This actually happened, though (just before and just after I left the
company in question, a few years ago): a new manager came in, imposed a
micromanagement style on the department, verbally abused members of staff
for having low morale ("Look happy! Don't you realise how lucky you are? If
not for me you'd have lost your jobs!"), fired a needed temp worker for
griping, got a senior technical writer eased out by more-or-less legal means
for being "disloyal" and lacking "team spirit", didn't waste any time
learning about the technical side of the projects the department worked
on... and got promoted.

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