Timeline for How do you handle your Project Manager
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| Apr 20, 2010 at 7:25 | comment | added | T.J. Crowder | @Vecdid: Blech sounds like an unpleasant situation, man. Kudos for controlling what you can, that's all any of us can really do. | |
| Apr 20, 2010 at 3:50 | comment | added | James Campbell | @TJ tried to take control, impossible. He don't listen, don't understand, just geting to the point of I don't care. I tell them what they don't want to hear and really don't care anymore. Told them if they don't like it, fire me and hire two people for what they pay me, maybe then, they can what they want, becuase these unreasonable expectations and thinking everything is easy and small, then they should go hire someone else. So, no more 90+ hour weeks due to me walkin my boss through how to do everything and still try to get work done... Oh yeah I didn't mention, I also do his job. | |
| Apr 5, 2010 at 18:24 | comment | added | used2could | Also start making them choose what they get in the day/week. I started to say "that would be great if we could get all that done today but realistically we can't so chose 2 of the 4 items you've mentioned need to be completed first. | |
| Apr 5, 2010 at 18:20 | comment | added | used2could | I think this a great answer to a very real situation. More times than not it's due to a lack of "honest" communication. My managers would always ask leading question and i would give in to what i knew they wanted to hear. after stressing for over a year 24/7 i broke and stopped caring. i'm 100% honest about deliverables and quality has increased as a result. saving money/time in the long run. if they can't see it, then leave and let the medical bills pile up. Hospitals can't turn u away. | |
| Mar 27, 2010 at 7:43 | comment | added | T.J. Crowder | @Vecdid: Yeah, it's a pain being in that situation. But where possible, make calm reasonable points about the impact of ramp-up time on the final deliverable (and other things you're working on). | |
| Mar 27, 2010 at 6:42 | comment | added | James Campbell | I do not mind learning new things at all, but the expectation is that I am to know everything and get it done very quickly. | |
| Mar 26, 2010 at 23:18 | history | answered | T.J. Crowder | CC BY-SA 2.5 |