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What is more important to you, working hard for a better position or work/life balance? (kbin.melroy.org)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Work/life balance

I actively avoid getting promoted because management is the next step and fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck that shit. I hate managing my own workload, I'm not dealing with HR shit and keeping track of other people (while still also doing my job....)

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    It has always bothered me that most (all?) companies promotion path eventually moves you into management.

    It's an entirely different job. It would be like promoting from janitor to accountant.

    I know, I know, you would be managing people doing the thing you know how to do. So? Does it really matter? It's an entirely different skill set and entirely different job for you.

    I've avoided becoming a manager like the plague.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    That being said, stuff like Dilbert has always convinced me that management is easier than the work below it 100% of the time. Do you think there's any short course you coukd take that would make the process of management more clear to you?

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago

    Scott Adams was a massive dipshit, and using his cartoon as anything more than laughing at the addled interpretations of corporate life is mental to me.

    As for management being easier than work, that's only true if you're a psycho or don't actually have a real job to do. Every one of my friends that have been in management hated it, since it was more work and he shit on top of their actual job. And again, fuuuuuck that

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