| There's a reason that managers and supervisors | | | | was turned into a farm animal. Fred and Ethel |
| get paid more than their employees: managing | | | | Mertz were always at the Ricardo's apartment, |
| people is just plain hard. | | | | requiring drinks and cigarettes. Poor Laura Petrie |
| It's even harder to manage folks if you've climbed | | | | was constantly required to dance in black Capri |
| past them on the corporate ladder. Everyone can | | | | pants for the hard-drinking, nicotine-laden writers |
| agree to affably hate the guy who comes in | | | | of The Alan Brady Show. |
| from three states away to oversee the team, | | | | Remember - all of those manager-types smiled |
| but when it's the person you were eating sushi | | | | lovingly on their plebes, but they didn't expect to |
| with just last week on the Friday bento box | | | | be treated equally. When their employees |
| special...well, that just makes it personal. | | | | performed well for them - or in the case of the |
| Being really good at your job is a great thing. It | | | | Ricardos, paid their rent - the managers treated |
| helps the company to succeed and hides a lot of | | | | them as if they were earning their pay. When |
| faults for those on the team who might not be | | | | they didn't, well - Samantha had to go back in |
| carrying their weight. The reward for all this hard | | | | time to find a solution to Darrin's employment |
| work and competence? A management job. The | | | | woes and Lucy had to go on the air pawning |
| punishment? Well - the same. | | | | Vitameatavegamin. |
| There is no question that becoming a manager is | | | | To be a good manager, you have to put your |
| a great event. It gives you a chance to shine - to | | | | concerns for your popularity aside. Treat your |
| really show what you can do. It is evidence of | | | | employees like the professionals they should be, |
| the company's confidence in your abilities. | | | | even if they used to be your margarita-guzzling |
| However, joining the ranks of the top brass can | | | | buddies. Delegate work to them and don't |
| also mean a departure from the work you really | | | | micromanage them. If they succeed, reward |
| love. It also almost always means leaving your | | | | them. If they fail, don't. Don't be mean, and don't |
| friends behind. You may still be close, but the fact | | | | be critical. Speak your piece immediately, |
| is that rarely can you be an effective manager if | | | | succinctly, and give consequences if they don't |
| you remain a great friend. A great friend would | | | | improve. |
| put your long-time needs ahead of those of the | | | | The moral of the story is that in order to be a |
| company. A good manager wouldn't consider it. | | | | good manager, you have to expect your |
| A lot of the old sit-coms from early television | | | | employees to have positive results, understand if |
| hammer home the hierarchy of management, | | | | they don't (once or twice), and always, always |
| even among friends. Larry Tate thought nothing | | | | keep checking on them to make sure they do. |
| of interrupting Darrin Stephens after hours, even | | | | There was a reason that Larry Tate kept driving |
| if Darrin's wife was having a witch baby or Darrin | | | | all the way from Manhattan to New Rochelle. |