Originally posted by Pinkie
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You've managed people right? Had your own road surfacing business if I remember correctly? Let's put this in terms you can relate to. If you had a team of 30 lads used on rotation, and regardless of which lads you used on a particular job, the surfaces that were being laid weren't up to standard, would you pass the blame onto the lads working for you? Would you get away with using the same excuse of your lads not working hard enough or not following instructions to every disappointed client?
Of course you wouldn't mate, you'd get the blame as you are the manager. Just as I have taken the blame in the past when teams of guys I've managed have been under-performing. That's the nature of being a manager. Sometimes you may cop some flack when somebody under your management has let you down, but when the results are consistently below expectations the blame has to lie with the manager.
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