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<blockquote data-quote="Nancy" data-source="post: 142530" data-attributes="member: 59"><p>Steely,</p><p></p><p>My husband had a similar conversation with his office manager recently. She is a tough taskmaster and expects a lot of the office employees. They did not like her got got together and had one of them go to my husband and tell him they were all going to quit if she didn't lighten up. Coincidently the office manager was just planning on having a meeting the next morning to talk to them about their excessive personal calls. husband told her that she was the best office manager he could ever hope to have and is worth all of the other office workers put together so if they all wanted to leave that was fine, he would replace them. But that she might want to lighten up just a little and perhaps just change her approach in hope sthat they could all work together. </p><p></p><p>She is a person, like yourself, that gives 120% of herself to her job so being asked to lighten up was tough, but she listened and tried and things have been going better. This is not to say she was wrong, it just meant she had to change the way in which she interacted with people to get their cooperation. </p><p></p><p>I always found being a manager over people the most difficult job I ever had. I had to try to work with people who didn't care about their job and just wanted to complain, among other things, and that was difficult for a task oriented person like myself. </p><p></p><p>I hope today is better for you. </p><p></p><p>Nancy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nancy, post: 142530, member: 59"] Steely, My husband had a similar conversation with his office manager recently. She is a tough taskmaster and expects a lot of the office employees. They did not like her got got together and had one of them go to my husband and tell him they were all going to quit if she didn't lighten up. Coincidently the office manager was just planning on having a meeting the next morning to talk to them about their excessive personal calls. husband told her that she was the best office manager he could ever hope to have and is worth all of the other office workers put together so if they all wanted to leave that was fine, he would replace them. But that she might want to lighten up just a little and perhaps just change her approach in hope sthat they could all work together. She is a person, like yourself, that gives 120% of herself to her job so being asked to lighten up was tough, but she listened and tried and things have been going better. This is not to say she was wrong, it just meant she had to change the way in which she interacted with people to get their cooperation. I always found being a manager over people the most difficult job I ever had. I had to try to work with people who didn't care about their job and just wanted to complain, among other things, and that was difficult for a task oriented person like myself. I hope today is better for you. Nancy [/QUOTE]
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