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Originally Posted by Ultramaroon
Fair cop. I didn't mean to advocate fucking with your manager. I'm dead set against any sort of underhanded shenanigans and I failed to make that distinction.
There's real benefit in learning what your manager expects and then delivering before it is requested. That's the key.
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Ohhh I didn't think you were.
I always find it funny how pop culture likes to portray the typical Manager and either an incompetent, bumbling buffoon (i.e. Office Space, Dilbert) or an evil dictator to be resisted and fought at every step (i.e. just about any movie or show about retail). The reality of the job in this age means they actually do the tasks that were done by many people just a few years ago (before places rolled back) and the bad ones that don't show results get weeded out fast. It can be interesting when you have the janitor complaining about something and 2 minutes later have a VP complaining about the same topic from the totally opposite viewpoint. You have to figure out what to do to please them both and that ain't always easy.