In my case it was simply the fact that NO ONE TOLD ME WHAT THE JOB WAS LIKE! So I had to figure it out and of course, all I did was take pieces of my experience with previous managers and constructed my own FrankenManagerStein which was really, just bad. Like, really bad.

This was a long time ago but really it still feels like yesterday. I remember walking up to my manager then, and even to HR and asking for guidance and training and all I got was:

A quick coffee with my boss for what the guy thought was "mentoring time" and in reality it was just him bitching about the company.
A book and a 2 hour online training thing from HR (this was back in 2009 mind you so online stuff was not as cool).
A big laugh from most of the senior managers, followed by "that's the job dude" and stuff like that.

So anyway...it sucked, but it didn't deter me. I kept at it and eventually got up to Sr. Director.

That one experience though...man, I hated it. I wish someone would have invested more on me there.

What about you guys? What was the one thing you hated the most when you first became a manager?

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