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Musicmystery -> RE: I recognize two things (5/17/2014 9:39:40 AM)
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You're 46, for Christ's sake. You're talking like a 20-something in his first job.
I used to own a management consulting business, specializing in labor management. And this is an area where "Flavor of the Month" runs rampant -- even the dominant theories come in and out of favor every few years. People honestly don't know better.
Generally, managers are good workers promoted to supervisory positions. Once that happens, two bad things happen: (1) the business has lost its best workers, and (2) hired inexperienced managers.
Managing is difficult. No longer is one paid for time and labor, but for judgment and influence -- no longer to produce goods, but to produce results through other people. And *everyone* thinks "if *I* ran this place . . ." until they actually do--and find it doesn't work as they'd fantasized.
Part of that stems from the popular belief that labor is a cost--and it is, in fact, the highest cost a business faces (even 1-person operations, if we consider the implicit wages the owner is paying himself with an investment of time). It takes a shift to embrace Peter Drucker's mantra that labor is a resource, not a cost, and that these "problem workers" are in fact the only available solution.
Sounds like your pride is inadvertently being trampled on. Suggestion -- either learn to let it go, or take your market value and work elsewhere (and if you can't, then your market value isn't what you think, and be grateful you have the job you do).
[Incidentally, I folded the business because I hated going to work in the morning (in my own business!) and dealing with egos all day long. I was offered a position teaching professional writing -- and grabbed it.]
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