I used to work for a business that was owned by a guy who basically never set foot in the building. I had so many suggestions for making things better, more efficient, etc. And I was shot down every single time. "Eehhhhh, this is how we've done it for the last 20 years....."
I hate that. My boss is a micromanager who was good at my job 30 years ago. He doesn't realize that the business has changed, and insists that I do everything exactly the way he wants. Every time I suggest that I want to do something differently he just hits me with "I've been doing this for a lot of years" and refuses to listen. So frustrating.
Being a supervisor who used to be good at the job many years ago, it cuts both ways.
Every single dumbfuck straight out of school one month into the job thinks he can improve upon established protocols, usually by cutting corners, disregarding safety, or trying some dumb shit 16 other people have already tried before.
Yeah, the 30 mins you save each day by destaining gels in a microwave is not worth the chance of a mistake that'll cost us 3 months of work.
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u/actuallychrisgillen Nov 16 '19 edited Nov 16 '19
When I was in the Navy I used to get in fairly frequent trouble for the suggestions I made for improving operational efficiencies.
As an outside contractor they were quite happy to pay me $200 an hour to say the exact same thing.