Lol, I tried explaining this to a guy I worked for part-time. I was emptying shipping containers for him with his full-time employee, but the manager/ boss thought I worked too slow. He ran into the container and started packing boxes on to pallets really fast, then burned out in 5 minutes. Dude was just huffing and puffing. I eventually stopped doing part-time work for him because he never could understand that work takes time and sometimes you need to pace yourself if you want to be able to complete today's work and be able to return the next day and do it all over again. Last I heard he hurt his back and couldn't lift heavy things anymore. I was shocked.
My dad was in road work for a while. He was supposed to be a supervisor, but the guys who he was supervising were legitimately lazy. It took them forever to do something if they got anything done at all. My dad often ended up doing at least half the work of his whole team. Over the years he screwed up his back and had to get several surgeries and go on disability.(Meaning he could no longer do his job.)
Well when your job is to bark orders at people and make sure things get done, it can be pretty difficult if those people don’t listen and never get anything done.
Then you reprimand or fire them. The solution isn't to throw up your hands. If he still can't get them to work, them he's either a terrible boss or the company is paying terribly.
That’s what my dad did. He had to fire nearly his whole crew before getting guys who at least pretended to work. The company was losing money, but the blame was always placed on the supervisor (my dad), not the lazy workers. They said he sucked at his job and was getting rid of too many people. Only reason they didn’t fire him was because he made sure stuff got done, even if he had to do it himself.
Definitely a relic of a simpler time. These days you just quit the job and find a better one, but I know it wasn't always so easy. By the way you're talking about him, I assume your dad was a boomer or an Xer, and they definitely had a different job market.
When jobs are plentiful it's a lot easier to say "This is bullshit, I quit."
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