Managers that don’t manage
Is anyone else experiencing this? I’m talking about managers that don’t task out work, don’t seem to care what their team is doing, how the work is going or follow up on anything, are away a lot. I’ve gone through multiple managers in the last few years and keep coming across this. One was acting, so the hands off approach was understandable there. Maybe it’s just very low morale with RTO and cuts, so they’re doing the bare minimum. I’m glad to have the job and the paycheck, but man, I just feel like, what am I doing with my time every day? Nevermind trekking to an office to do very little. I communicate when I finish work and let them know I can take stuff on, and I get promises of new tasks, or to schedule a meeting to discuss more work, but it never amounts to much. There’s lots of work to be done, but it’s not my role to organize it and make sure it gets done, so I don’t. I’m open to feedback on my work and worry I’m doing something wrong, but I’m not being told there’s an issue. I’m also not really interested in constantly prodding someone to do their job or handhold. It just builds resentment, so I try to avoid that by focusing on language and skills development learning. I guess it could be worse, but I just feel so useless.