More vents

[waverly]

It was a hard day to be a manager today. I had to have a very sad and serious talk with my micro manager. She can’t continue on the path, but I hate it because she is otherwise awesome. I tried subtle and that doesn’t work with her so I had to do blunt force. Her answer was to contemplate resigning so I guess we wait. I guess that speaks to not taking criticism well. Although if I were the one I would have cried a lot for sure. I hope we can turn it around.

[shakinros]

Sorry waverly. That sounds no fun.

[waverly]

Thanks. She showed up to work today. I thought about checking in, but I thought I have talked too much and need to back off.

[mommyatty]

waverly, I recently had a hard convo with a second-level report. A mistake I made was not talking to him again about utterly unrelated topics sooner. I didn’t want to search him out for really no reason, but he started freaking out to his boss that I was “not speaking to him.” So a word of advice, drop by to ask her where she buys coffee or something if you don’t have a business reason to talk to her. I honestly wasn’t not speaking to the guy. I just had no reason to be speaking to him. I should have made one up.

[waverly]

We briefly talked this morning about tasks, but I will be sure to make small talk when I see her again. Thanks mommyatty !