First, let me say, that my supervisor is a nice individual. Pleasant demeanor. Family oriented. Easy-going.
The individual is the wrong fit for this line of business, IMO. When the individual orchestrates conference calls, I have to hit mute, while I yawn. I have to remember to order my Venti iced black tea with light ice before I join the calls.
I’m sure there are proper policies and procedures in order to successfully manage out your own supervisor, but I’ve been blessed with an over abundant amount of creativity. I almost see this as a game, but in all seriousness, this is for the good of the company. You see, if my supervisor is not going to utilize my creativity to make this company a more successful business, I’m going to have to redirect my creativity to managing the individual out of the company or into another position. I assure you, I’ll only utilize psychology In my efforts.
Let’s make this even more interesting. Please share your own ideas. For example, what is the proper, policy and procedure, way to remove your supervisor?
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I’ve made a commitment to myself that every time I get shuffled to a new supervisor, If that supervisor is not committed to the company, I’m going to do what I can to manage them out of the company.
Does the company really think that I’m going to continually dust off the résumé, sit through psychobabble interviews wondering if I’m going to be interviewed by the person I’ll be reporting to? Nope! No way! I have lame supervisors throwing obstacles in my way all the time. Sometimes I wonder if it’s their way of quiet firing me. Good luck with that. I’m still here And I’ve outlasted many supervisors.
Need to manage out leaders that are poor managers. In the Audit org no clue how several of the top leaders can come even close to a meets rating much less even have a job. Poor leaders with every person leaving the org at same time they still collect their million dollar checks
I think it’s an excellent idea to manage out the managers. You’re actually helping the company cut expenses.
I currently have a manager who is trying to quiet fire me. Good luck with that.
Sounds like an ideal manager to me
I think you're an arrogant ahole who doesn't appreciate what he's got - a good boss. If you had any actual "creativity" you would actually be using it for something other than backstabbing.
Get over yourself.
I would like to be able to manage out my manager. The individual is the most boring individual and unenthusiastic I’ve ever met. I’m thinking that my end of year review will be best utilized to describe what a horrible leader my supervisor has been. If we can only rate/review our supervisors, Think of all the problems that could be solved in this company…
Wow. You sound like a GD sociopath.
Yes! Best suggestions, yet!!!
This is easy.
Step 1: apply for fmla/accommodations and get a couple others to do the same. This will make their life he-l and get their wheels churning for a new job already.
Step 2: make sure someone on your team has some random pending lawsuit against the company.
Step 3: complain to HR and your manager’s manager consistently. This will make it look like your manager doesn’t control their business and it’s the wrong job for them.
That’s it. If you can pull that stuff off you’ll have a new boss within a year.
Interesting topic. Hmmmm. How to manage out your direct supervisor.
- All supervisor directs complain to the next level supervisor?
- As noted below, everybody on the team quiet quits.
- Every team member, while on 1:1 with the supervisor, complains about feeling frustrated with lack of direction/leadership.
- If the supervisor is emotionally fragile, having several teams complain about the individual would probably work.
- Being a difficult team member, specifically to the supervisor, but being very affable towards everyone else might give the supervisor a complex.
Good luck!
There are two main approaches:
Traditional:
Apply for an internal job change - to another group
Humourous:
Quiet quitting