Joys of Management

Fun things about being a manager:

• Your department has a cost center that went up 61% over last year, with no increase in budget funding.
• You have a list of incomplete audit items from 2004 that you will audited on in 2 months.  None of them have been completed.
• You start getting letters from HR to "Counsel your employee John Q. Moron about (a) Attendance (b) Attitude (c) Discipline Involoving ___________  (d) All of the above."
• If you thought your "Pay by the hour" sucked as a white collar/professional, try management, it's a whole 'nother level.

All in all, I love the new job, but managing people and budgets is a new and unfriendly beast.