Quote Originally Posted by Chakramaster View Post
Yeah with jobs like that it's critical you don't put yourself in a vulnerable spot. Else you will make it a lot harder on yourself. I just got really lucky with mine I guess.

My boss even told me about the position I'm in and how he ended up choosing me. Where at first they kept sendi NF him females and he told them "can I get some males." Most weren't great and he narrowed it down to me and one other guy. The other guy had no job, but he get kinda questionable when he answered a question telling him. "He'd quit the job for something else if he didn't like things." He liked how I handled talking over the phone so he chose me. Luckily I remember that day too. He so happened to call on a day I had off.

But yeah one thing my boss has flat out told me. So long as the job gets done he doesn't care what I do. I can sit in my office and watch movies on my phone, play games, do whatever I want. He didn't care if I brought in a big screen tv (clearly joking since site staff here wouldn't like that). I don't really do that all too often though. Unless I really don't have much. Last month was crazy with nearly 600 calls having to be made. This month is only around 300 and that's how it's supposed to be. They just forgot to switch it back to lower after December. So January was hectic.

I tell him all the time I'm game to learn more. So I'm supposed to be training in becoming a Collection Tech soon too.
Sounds like you have a pretty good manager! I like his style, I think I'd adopt something similar. As long as the work gets done, I think having that extra time to take a breather is well-deserved. If your reward is just more work, people are not going to be as motivated to really push to get things done. They'll take their time knowing they're just going to have stuff to do on their plate anyway.

My manager... she's nice, but she LOVES to pack on the busywork, as in filling downtime with things that really don't bring much value-added at all, but just pass the time even if they won't be all that helpful. I still remember how she asked me to make a product portfolio, it took me many hours and was a beast to organize, and then when I presented it to her, she had totally forgotten she asked me to do it in the first place and it hasn't been used at all since then. She also loves lunch and learns, which I'm not too crazy about because it means having to organize an hour-long presentation and it pulverizes your lunch hour (and hopefully you have the time to grab a bite either before or after). I've done two already and I'm expected to do two more in 2021, but I'm hoping after this that's it, because it's a lot of prep that goes into these on top of all the mountains of other tasks and responsibilities I need to address.