reason2listen

The fact that you’re a manager who even thinks about IS being a problem for your employees shows you’re already on the right track. The way my manager speaks to me (no positive feedback, clinical negative feedback only) is the primary trigger for my imposter syndrome.

The leaders of so many companies I have worked for are so dysfunctional that some of those items don’t matter at all to them.

• Happier and healthier? That’s not the role of a employer. I’m not happy or healthy, nor do I care if my employees are.

• more productive? That’s unpossible if they work less time

• more motivated? I pay them to be motivated.

• those companies are different. It would never work for us

• we don’t have an absenteeism problem. Just a few lazy employees

• giving people 4 day work weeks and then revoking it would be brutal and potentially have a serious consequences (only one I agree with to some degree)

Hopefully enough clear minded and modernized leaders try this to make it obvious to the dinosaurs that this is a viable path forward.

Apparently. An answer may have brought me back into the fold.

I’m convinced that there is a lot of imposter phenomenon in IT because so many of us are the first in our families to have successful white collar careers. We did the hard work to get into a professional world that’s much different from the world our parents worked in. Fighting our way in rather than being guided in means we arrive with a lot of baggage.