jace

One of the things that I really struggle with, being a lead producer, having a lot of responsibility at work, and being boss to people, is keeping respect for those who don't work very hard, or don't work very considerately.

I'm ultimately responsible for the work my employees do. If they don't do it, I'm the one who immediately suffers. I have to explain why it didn't get done. The games are my responsibility, not theirs. Eventually the blame might settle on them, but it has to pass through me first. And very often I will do my best to shield my employees with legitimate (or not so legitimate) reasons as to why their work didn't get done; they've had a rough week, they're burned out, they didn't get the help they needed, etc. I don't want my employees to get the blame if I can avoid it.

But for some of them, there IS no good reason.

I have a roommate who works for a very large and very famous tech company, and very often, she just doesn't get her work done. She misses deadlines, she doesn't work full days, she turns in incomplete projects, etc. I have another roommate who works for MY company, who just... doesn't work that hard.

Once upon a time, when I wasn't responsible for things at my job and I didn't really care, I wouldn't have cared about this at all. But now that I have responsibility, and I see this happening, I just... lose respect for these people.

And once I lose respect for someone, I start liking them less.