In every business all over the planet, people are the same. So too are managers. We all personally know every group I'm going to describe.
(A): Everybody's best friend. These people are smart, motivated and very good at what they do; they're just in management because they want to make good mony to support themselves or their girlfriends or their families. Very easy to get along with. If you're under their supervision, mostly all you have to do is show up on time, do your job, and not be a trouble maker. They usually either get fired or de moted, unfortuanately.
My view? They go straight to Heaven. Tickets pre-paid in advance.
(B): The Control Monster. Signature affect of these people is that every body is a f king idiot except them. The store would surely collapse without their steely, ever-present guidance. When talking to you they're not talking to you, they are holding forth as if to a retarded child with a malignant brain tumor. When they're off duty, no they're not: They tend to show up in their street clothes, ostensibly there in the store to shop. But they're barking orders and making suggestions and being top=grade ass-hats to all the other salaried managers who have to be there. If these people won a Hundred BILLION Dollar Power Lottery, they would still insist on keeping their jobs (or buying their own store).
My view? They go straight towhatever level of Hell whereyou can control when the water flows to your mouth....Just not WHEN.
(C): The True Sadist. This person is intelligent, driven and has clear goals in their life. They are very pragmatic and effective at not only basic retail management skills, but quarterly and even yearly market projections; they tend to excel at advanced tasks that none of their peers wish to tackle.
They are also snide, egostistical, arrogant, vehemently EVIL little bitches whom will stop at nothing to crush the very souls of any one beneath them---ergo, those without a salaried management title. These 'people', while pathetic and simplistic and somewhat deserving of some form of human kindness, actually deserve none of any of that. Whatever twisted things happened in their lives to cause them to victimise innocent human beings in the fashions that they not only do, but ENJOY doing, does not give them any right to do so.
My view? They go straight to Satan's Sex den foran eternity of watching early eighties Hair Rock videos.
Also lets not forget about the fourth type of Kroger manager who is so obsessed with the whole Key Retailing Bull Sh1t that they feel the need to cram it down your throat till you choke and beg for mercy. These evil Bas turds will burn in the hottest corner of Hell. OHEYECU812.
Ain't it the truth??? Ain't it the truth??? SPEAK, SISTER!!!
Or what I meant to say was that you just described every job out there, for it is not only in retail that these types of managers exist...In business, industry, government, finance, and many other fields, these same personality types exist...Sadly, no one ever explains these things the way you just did...It all makes PERFECT sense!!! There ought to be a seminar for this kind of stuff...It'd be very educational...Now, if we can just get more C's and B's to be A's...There are too many C's and B's...I'll say this, you can never get an A to be a B or a C, because that just doesn't happen...Once you're an A, you're always an A (if that makes any sense)...
naw see all that is bull sh*t. a good manager knows all that. they can easily dance between all of the styles based on the need. management is a way of life. can you "manage" your own self? how do you do it? take that one step further and manage a retail setting. it's all the same theories. we all 'manage' something every single day. ourselves; our families; whatever. it isn't some big mystery.
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I am no longer part of the oppressed, evil workforce of Kroger! Can you say "Hallelujah"
"The College Boy"...This character is WAY too young for his job,looks like he just started shaving last week,andhas no clue about what it takes to get the job done in a Grocery store.They do not 'manage' at all simply Parrot whatever corporate tells him to say.They usually wind up in the "C" category when they finally grow up.
