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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
Tell her these things will be done and an answer will be given when you find a convenient time to deal with them and not a second before. Then give her a task to do immediately.
The next time after that, when she comes in to your office(before you acknowledge the reason she came in) ask her what she has been doing that day/ the past week. As she gives you a run down interrupt a few times to ask how long that particular task took. Then abruptly ask her what she wants.
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Wow, I would tell you to pound sand and walk out the door.
You want me to do a task for you immediately, yet its ok for you to take care of your commitments when its convienient.
Then you want to go nazi on everything that I do in a day and how long it took me to do it. Yet as a manager you promised me stuff a long time ago but its still not done.
One of the first things that I learned in terms of managing people is not to make demands if I'm not living up to the demands made of me.
Yes its tough being a boss, and things are flying at you at 100 miles an hour, but thats why your the boss. If I tell you that my part of a presentation is going to be done on Tuesday, either its done or you get help doing it.
Its ridiculous that people think that management is a free pass to get away with stuff that people within your department would never get away with under your watch.
As an edit wouldn't you look silly, if you demanded to know what she'd done all week, and how long it took, and she had gotten all of her tasks done, then she asked you the same question and why the hell your not done with what you promised the employee?
Because my next step would be going over your head to whoever manages you to see if I can get you some coaching.