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I hate to say it, but at my job, I have learned not to do so. I was empowered to do it at the two business jobs I had, and usually my supervisiors were just people who had been there longer, and were looking for ways to do their jobs better.
Now, however, my boss is a creepy sort of Christian who actually says that employees should be obediant, and do their jobs without questioning, trusting their supervisors, which si the opposite of how I do things. I have, in the past, e-mailed him asking for clarification of his requests, explaining the problems with them in professional business-line language, and being told that I needed to just do what I was asked, and stop being insubordinant.
Thankfully, he is so poor with organization that I have learned that if I just send him reports, and deal with my clients separately, I don't have to deal with his issues, and most of his more "shady" requests are forgotten by the next week.
It's very disfunctional, and I have also decided that when the CEO leaves in March, if he is still my immediate supervisor, I will be quite happily skipping away.
So...as for advice to people who have to do this? Depends of how this person best takes information. I tend to drop a non-confrontational note (unless it's a serious ethics violation) outlining the issues, what I would like to see done to resolve it, and asking to set up a time to discuss it. And document everything. I have learned that documentation is FAR more powerful than observation or an in-person meeting.
Good luck, and I hope this rambling made abit of sense. |
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