Talking Back

This article deals with various ways of handling bosses. There are times when a manager does not or would not communicate properly to an employee. There are also times when a co-worker is closer to the manager than the employee himself, and this co-worker allocates tasks. This scenario most of the time becomes frustrating and unacceptable by employees who do not get their task allocations or other valuable information from their managers, rather receiving it from some other subordinate. In this scenario, the author suggests it is better to talk to the subordinate clearly that enough is enough and any task allocated by him/her or information will not be accepted. It might create some problems for the employee; however, it may happen that the manager gets a clarity that the employee must be talked to directly rather than through a subordinate.