Do you trust your management?

[rubytue]

Management can mean your immediate boss or the people above him/her. Just how is your general feeling of trust with the people above you? Feel free to explain, and I'm an app person so no poll.

[Deleted]

Immediate boss: new to management, so I trust him generally but he's learning
Above him: yes, pretty much in every way.

[ijack]

nope. I've been thrown under the bus quite a few times by my team lead and manager in the last year. my director seems to have my back, but he's also super political so I probably wouldn't trust him. don't know my new VP enough to know anything about him.

[rubytue]

I'm realizing more and more I have no trust in management. I do not feel like they will have my back on anything. My immediate supervisor does the best she can, but everyone above her - nope. No way. I'm actually feeling like they are looking for ways to catch us screwing up (and making unrealistic goals and rules just for that).

This is the first time in my career I've felt this level of distrust. Yeah, it goes back to my huge post Friday. I'm still mulling everything. But I'm curious if this is somewhat normal or not.

[mskitkat]

I trust my management to act in their own best interest.

[shell403b]

No.

[arch01]

FT Job: immediate-yes. above-eh, most of the time.
PT Job: immediate-yes. above-no.

[Emerald1486]

Yes I do. My boss has praised my work several times and will tell me to get whatever I need to make my job easier

[irene adler]

No.

[tine]

My last 2 coworkers have left because they were promised promotions that they didn't get and now it looks like the same thing is going to happen to me. So no, I do not trust management here.

[thefield]

Perhaps I'm naive, but I do.

[Deleted]

I don't trust anyone at my current job - not even my coworkers.

I did trust my immediate supervisors in my last couple of jobs. I honestly don't think my supervisor knew I was getting laid off until it happened. HER supervisor is the one who delivered the news. I did NOT trust her supervisor and I was iffy about higher up management.

[v]

At the company I've been to for less than two months, yes. My boss and my boss's boss seem genuinely interested in my development and advancement and while I've only known them for a few months, they have a proven record of awesomeness with two close friends who have worked for the company.

At the firm I just left? Hell no. There were three partners in my group. The most senior one (who was the managing partner of our office) changed on a dime. He'd go months without speaking to one or another of us because of some mistake or another. He told one of my peers that he felt it was good for the group to get rid of someone every year to keep everyone on their toes. He was also extremely sexist.  The most junior partner in the group would throw the associates under the bus every chance she got. The only one who I suppse was "trustworthy" was the middle one, who was a complete psychopath in many other ways, but at least he was a consistent one.

If we want to talk about my first job, the highest management is possibly going to jail for fraud (don't quote), so I vote not trustworthy for them too. We knew when I was there that they were not trustworthy, but for other reasons.

[audette]

Current boss: I trust him so little that redo-ing my resume is high on the todo list (although it's still lower than "unpacking boxes")

We merged with another company earlier this year. My current boss is from the other company, and has previously indicated concerns over telework. I feel really left out, and I think my days are numbered at the company unless something changes.

Previous boss: I trusted him. I sometimes thought he was out to lunch on things, but generally I trusted him to do what needed to be done and to let me know if there were any things I needed to work on. The work environment felt more supportive and more interested in keeping my decade+ knowledge base...

[h]

I trust the partner I work with most closely completely. He is exceedingly smart and very ethical, and he's always straight with me. I have other colleagues who are far less trustworthy, but they matter less.

[Deleted]

Haaaahahahahahahahhaha. Nope

[hamster]

100%. It's wonderful.

At least my direct boss. I like his boss as well, although she works at HQ so I don't know her well.

[Velvetshady]

My direct manager: somewhat. I do trust that if he'd been my manager when I had someone trying to screw me over two years ago, he would have dealt with it 100x better than my old manager. But I wouldn't expect him to ever put his neck out for me.

The next manager up: I decided to trust him in the incident above, while he did deal with it and didn't fall for the lies told about me, he did do one thing that has made me never trust him again.

But I also rarely trust people 100%--I can count the people I'd say a truly trust on one hand and all but 1 are related to me.

[illgetthere]

For the first time, yes. I work in a very small company, and it is great so far.
Didn't trust anyone at the prior two companies I worked at.

[steph96]

No. Absolutely not. This is the first job where I have ever felt this way and it just makes for a terrible environment.

In general I feel like I trust the ones above my manager, but I know if it came down to picking my side or my managers, they would pick my manager since she has been here for 8x as long as me.

[mbcdefg]

Immediate manager: I don't DIStrust her, but I don't know her all that well yet. She was brought in as a replacement when my last manager (whom I trusted very deeply and miss very much) resigned. I think she's OK and she's looking out for my best interests, but the old manager and I had more of a personal connection.

CEO: Nope. He came in and immediately made a bunch of changes, including laying off a ton of people. 

[acr]

eh, so-so. I've been here 10 years so obviously I trust them to some extent. I told the president a few weeks ago that I would have more trust in management if they would quit asking everyone's opinion on stuff and just make decisions. I want to feel like the people running my company have a vision and know how to get there.

[polarbearfans]

I trust no one. While the people above me are supportive and have given me no reason to distrust them, I am a guarded person and based on past experiences I think in the end people will look out for themselves first.

[cheezer]

Generally yes. They're good people. They would still look out for themselves first (and so would I), but I make my boss's life so much easier so I've got that going for me.

[rubytue]

This kind of confirms that trust in management is related to job satisfaction Not that I didn't know that, but ... * sigh*

Reason #576 I should go

[jillboston]

Nope. Not. at. all.

[agnes]

Immediate Manager: I don't distrust her. And overall, she is by far one of my best managers I've had. But there have been some incidents that have left me disappointed.
VP: I don't think he would ever have my back, but I don't distrust him either. He is very protective of his department to his detriment at times. It's all about The Money.
Owner: In between Immediate Manager & VP. Not necessarily all about money or protective, but I don't think he has in mind the best interest for employees anymore.

I still enjoy working for these people and have worked for far far worse and just meh management.

[rubytue]

I'd just like to update that I picked my battle today, and ended up getting my manager's support and she is going to bat for us.

Sadly, I completely admit if I explained it, it might seem like mountain out of molehill, but it goes to my general distrust of anyone above her. They keep saying the policy is X, no one does X, they tell us it's the policy. I'm pretty convinced they do that so they could use it against us. But it's an friggin stupid policy that makes no sense whatsoever, which is why no one follows it.

[july]

Yes, I trust my boss. However, he tends to be a "nice guy" and doesn't make waves, which can be an issue.

Management above that. It depends.

In my experience, the ones I don't trust are the ones who are most insecure in their position. Sometimes they lack the ability to shift into a management/leadership role and feel insecure by not being the technical expert anymore. They try to be the technical expert, but fail. Pointing that out, even indirectly, is a threat.

I have worked successfully with people whom others don't trust. I am never in a postion to be a threat to their promotion nor have I worked directly for them. I cover myself by keeping my management informed of what I do, not putting the other in a position where they feel insecure, and just doing a good job that ultimately will benefit us both.

[rubytue]

Mar 2, 2015 17:22:02 GMT -5 @littlemoxie said:

Mar 2, 2015 15:34:27 GMT -5 rubytue said:

This kind of confirms that trust in management is related to job satisfaction Not that I didn't know that, but ... * sigh*

Reason #576 I should go

This is not my personal experience.  Not to say that makes your conclusion invalid, I just thought I'd give you a different data point.  I like my job, but don't trust anyone.  Times are tough in the oil industry, and I'm pretty sure most decisions are being made based on politics rather than what makes the most sense.

well, not necessarily a direct one to one relationship. Just in general. Doesn't mean it's everyone experience.