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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Red flags on a manager which made my senior life hard
1) they have no experience or power in booking manpower - come on isn't that your job? do it well if not your entire audit team suffers for your lack of competence
2) they only sit in office or wfh to review work, die die refuse to go client place
3) too focused on their personal KPI and time cost, so they book less staff
4) tell engagement x they busy focusing on engagement y, and tell engagement y they focusing on engagement x. end up manager is just slacking
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#3 - depends on the big boss. Time cost is not a big deal for my department. My bosses are fine maintaining margins. Some new managers scared to approach big boss to ask to lower margins. It’s not true that margin is a manager KPI but some M1s have that misconception. Other bosses prioritise quality and service over budget. Just need to be reasonable.
Also some managers spoil market by hogging staff even when there’s not much to do just in case something comes in and they cannot get more people last minute.