mrorwell wrote:

> "jmcquown" > wrote in
> :
>
> > Exactly, Dean. I've had performance appraisals written by many a
> person who couldn't sit down and do my job in a crunch. How the hell
> are they supposed to judge whether I'm doing a poor, adequate or
> outstanding job when they don't understand and can't do the job
> themselves?
>
> Two comments... one about a friends situation, the other about my own.
>
> His situation: My friend is a programmer. He has had a dozen
> different supervisors over the past 30 years. He complains bitterly
> that the WORST supervisors he has had have been fellow programmers
> who were promoted to management. Why? Because they can't MANAGE...
> but they love to MICROmanage the work. They don't understand the
> nuances of management... they don't know how to get things done in
> the company, and they don't know how to do appraisals.

Yeah. My supervisor isn't a programmer, she proably couldn't write code
to save her life. And that's just fine with me. That's MY job. Her's is
to plan the activities, collect status, clear obstacles for us, and
generally provide the environment for us to do what we do.




Brian

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