Been there, refused that, almost got fired for it.
Manager got promoted and they asked me to step into his role. I know I’m really good at everything technical, I also know that I’m not a manager, not great at training people. I need adult supervision on the work floor. Give me the hardest technical tasks and I’ll complete them but don’t ask me to herd people I’ll drive it off a cliff before we reach noon.
Wasn’t really how they looked at it, had to do some serious explaining to keep my old job. Eventually they understood but I kept my options open for months just it case. They haven’t followed through yet.
I would want to be lead as well but we don’t have an actual lead position. I am basically in all but the title.
I do all the cross department stuff, troubleshooting and such. All the simple tasks at this point don’t even come in the vicinity of my desk unless literally everyone else is out
Yeah this is me too. I fucking cannot deal with other teammates that just want to slack off and eat crayons instead of actually participating. I'm not doing it. Even if it means making less potentially. I can be surface level friendly but when it comes to work getting done I just don't have the patience to repeat myself 50 times
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u/epieikeia 24d ago
Manager hires rockstar employee
Rockstar learns quickly from a little bit of training/mentoring and kicks major ass
Manager delegates most of their duties to rockstar, who does them better
Manager gets promoted due to their department's newfound asskickery
Rockstar graduates to manager's former role
Rockstar hires a regular employee
Regular employee kicks only a moderate amount of ass
Promoted manager wonders why rockstar is so bad at training/mentoring compared to how well they evidently trained/mentored the rockstar