Many times, my manager gives me a sarcastic comments on my actions. I'll give some examples. Example 1: If I come to office 30 minutes late than usual time. He greets me saying "Good Afternoon" or saying "Did u hit the snooze button today ?" is he indirectly telling me that I need to come in time ? Example 2: We have open environment (not cubicles). So, everyone can see everyone's screens. I sometimes have football/ cricket going on in one of my screens (multi tasking). He comes by me and says "Yes. the game is the first priority for us". Is he indirectly telling me not to do that ? Example 3: If I ask him if i can work from home tomorrow, he says "yes". But, later in a team meeting he goes "he's working from home today. I told him our team mostly like to come to office". then I go "But, I informed you about this yesterday". he goes "Yea. But, I'm not gonna tell you what you should or shouldn't do" PS: Despite of these comments, he never gave a negative feedback to me directly. He always said I exceed expectations in all my 1:1 meetings. I also got good perf bonus, incentive, etc. I just cant understand his intentions behind his comments. This could be because of the cultural gap too. He's an American and I'm an Indian. I can't quite tell if he's just joking or if he's trying to tell me something with his sarcastic tone What do you guys think ?
He is just frustrated and probably a new manager. He will learn.
How do you think he will evolve?
You are right, he's a new manager :) he got promoted 8 months back
You will understand when you are thrown an official pivot notification on face.
What is pivot notification?
Don’t worry. It’s an Amazon thing.
Be on time. Stop watching cricket at work. Go to the office.
🤣😂🤣 and this has nothing to do with being Indian or American.
Watching a game at work is no no. You are not paid for that.
But I'm gettin things done well in time. I never watch game when I have something critical going on at work
Yeah watching a game at work blatantly is not good. Unless it is like a world cup final or something.
Just talk to him about it
What's the best/safest way for him to talk to the manager?
Just ask him about this behavior, if he/she not responding well, that's a sign to leave... And if they are, problem solved
Sounds like he's trying to give off a laid back vibe but also trying not to lose too much of the control over the team. TBH as a manager that stuff would bug me too, besides the working from home - I fully support that unless there's a specific reason for people to be in the office. He's definitely trying to tell you to cut that stuff out but doesn't want to be overbearing, probably because you still have pretty solid output. Just show up on time, work hard and earn your pay while you are there
It could be that he’s putting on a show because another employee is abusing work-from-home (not actually working) and he wants this problem employee to feel like the manager cracks down on everybody?
+1, he provides bad example for the team while performing well himself.
Wish i had this kind of manager.
Stop being lazy and get to work. Or leave snd make the company a better place.
This is some 6d chess