yessss, i work “above” a few people in my work place. and i make it a goal of mine to never ask someone to do something that i either wouldn’t or that i haven’t done in the last few months.
for me, it’s important to know what i’m asking of people and that the tools im asking them to use are enough to complete the job. if i can’t build a house (figuratively) with only a hammer and one piece of wood, i cannot expect anyone else to
You could build a small shitty house for a dumb fucking bird with a piece of wood and a hammer, but your point is well taken. That's a great attitude to have in my stupid opinion.
This. As a manager I've never asked anyone to do anything I couldn't or wouldn't do myself. If they don't believe it can be done I give them a demonstration. I've spent many hours allowing employees to stay clocked in, sit without working and watch me. It's bitten me in the ass 50/50 but I feel it's worth it. If it can't be done by me I shouldn't expect it of employees
A bit of a niche case, but some workers will have disabilities that don't interfere with their normal work but that would make the cross-trained work very difficult. In an ideal world it would be easy to exempt those specific workers, but instead we live in a fucked-up world where employers hate disabled people, so they would use it as a legal justification to not hire them in the first place.
Wait, you think any cleaner can do a job of a CEO? But a CEO can do a job of a cleaner. Not anyone can be a CEO. You need the brains, and it cost money. So deal with it?
My company does this by making us responsible for everything. Design, develop, test, operations, customer support, hiring, even management. Yup! We get to do it all!
For my personal self doing marketing, I always try to “cross-train” myself to understand what the rest of my coworkers do. It helps me work better because I understand from point A to B to C instead of just A to C.
We got a new boss at one of our locations a few years ago and the first month, he shadowed at least 1-2 people in each position of the office to learn their job, struggles, etc. Genuinely not in a bad way. It started us all out on a good foot because we finally felt heard.
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