When a manager gives you instructions, he shouldn’t be reminding you about those, you should be following them and letting her/him know if you hit any roadblock, thats what it is expected of you.
I think the same for a manager, if somebody on your org ask you to do something for him, the other shouldn’t be reminding you or asking for updates after missing datelines, that just show poor interest on your success.
One of the reasons I studied an MBA was to help me identify a good manager once I have it.
As an IT person, against all the other careers we can actually grow ($$$) without having to become manager, so I decided if my future growth depends on another person is not me, I should be able to identify them.
To quote my first manager “perception is truth”, whatever everybody person perceives as truth is their truth,
In the same line of thought, I knew he wasn’t such a great manager, I got moved to an Indian manager who was great but some months later my first manager was going to become my mid-level manager, so I had to move.
Bad management or bad manager can destroy your career, your job or at least stagnate your professional growth, each of those is something every person cannot risk.
I always wanted to give the very first class in a master, because at that moment, they dont know each other and they are starting a new chapter in their lifes, coming back to another that they most likely had left behind some years ago.
I never had the chance since I teach mostly optional classes at the last or second to last semester.
Finally this semester I was able to do it and not only that, this class was the first class ever, since the master in data science just started, so I was able to teach at first semester, the first day on a newly created master.
I had around 40 teachers who taught some topic on the university, as expected some where good, others ok and some of then were marvelous.
I had 5 that were marvelous, totally topnotch:
I already started posting about LACS, I will post about the others too.
When I started teaching at the university, I had a lot of acquaintances since I was a student there, so a good amount of the professors were my teachers.
I had been teaching for a week or two at the time, but I still haven’t got my key to the classroom, so I had to ask another professor passing by to open the classroom for me. One day LACS was passing by and I asked, he of course opened the classroom for me and went to his cubicle, he came back and told me he heard I was teaching but hasn’t seen me yet, now that he saw with his eyes he wanted to the welcome me to the guild, so he gave an eraser and a marker.
I already had a marker(exactly the same as the one he gave me) and a similar eraser and what he gave was just another marker and eraser he had but it is the only welcome gift I received at the time on my first job and it came from the best professor the faculty had who was also my tutor…to the day I still have both marker and eraser, stored on a ziploc bag as a fond memory of my early years and one of the only 2 things I have from lacs.
When I started my bachelors in informatics, I was randomly assigned a tutor as everybody else, I didn’t how he was nor he knew me.
Sometime in the semester, he scheduled a meeting to get to know me and plan for the next semester.
I asked around how he was, my programming teacher told me that he was one of the best teachers and was certainly the brightest, so I went with high expectations.
When I met him, he was wearing casual clothes, not at all like an academic snob I thought he will be.
We talked about his role in my career and stuff like that, at the end of the meeting I asked him for his big Simpsons’ poster and he told me that he loved the Simpsons, we talked about them around 1 hour and he told me the was afraid of becoming stupid like Homer, cuz’ he was getting fatter and balder with the time. I remember I spotted Homer dressed with other clothes and he explained that he was Homer’s brother and that he only appeared so far in 1 episode so far.
On mid 2011, I started teaching Visual BASIC and I asked LACS what did he think about the language, since he taught C# around the time and he was very fond of it.
He told me that he learned the language but didn’t like that every release changed everything, from the syntax to how it worked on the background; the only constant in that language is the change
Later when Visual Studio 2013 came out, I noticed a few changes, so I knew he was right
