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2nd try...Does NS micromanage its employees?
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<p>Does the platoon not have the Sarge check everything among the Privates? A good supervisor must check his "Crew" to make sure that the mission objective for the day or shift is progressing nicely. The Sarge better be on the job because the Captain will come round to make sure everyone has the Barracks in order.</p><p>On occasion I take charge of 7 people and help them go where they need to be. When I tell one of them "Go here, not there" it's not because I am playing a game or making thier life difficult, the job they are doing will impact the overall performance of the outfit immediately. Once in a while I detect one person whose performance will negatively impact everything all the way to the General Manager. That problem is removed quietly before we have BIG problems like accidents.</p><p>I rather have the crew out there in the yard doing work, not gathered in the shack leaning on the coffee pot. That is what break times and quitting time is for.</p><p>I actually prefer someone else to be the crew boss and just do the job as best as possible in the conditions provided. Sometimes it's much nicer to be the man in the trench without worrying about the fate of the entire project or having bigger managers in cleaner suits breathing down my collar.</p><p>In fact the worker doing his or her job within thier training wont even notice those little white trucks quietly drifting like church mice among them.</p><p>Once in a while I run into a supervisor who is very... insistent on making sure that I am actually doing my work. Sometimes such insistence actually negatively interferes with my ability to do said work in a timely manner.</p><p>I usually hand the work to the supervisor and tell so and so to do the job himself if he or she wishes it done right. I dont care if it is a suit on the board with a multi million dollar distribution center on the dock or a paving crew boss. Good bosses back off a little bit and give the men room to work.</p>
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