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Back in my time in management, I would generally always let people go home early if they finished their work. Harder they worked, sooner they went home. As it was a "overtime is expected" job, the hours/pay weren't as big a concern as was getting time to relax so they all took it. Usually wasn't a great full shift motivator, but would give them a huge burst of productivity in the last two-ish hours to keep fatigue going.
If I could have paid them for the missed time I would, but corporations don't give that flexibility or power.
ugh, how did you stand it? every manager I've ever seen spend their whole shift, running from department to department, putting out (metaphorical) fires...
Luckily my team was around a dozen to dozen.5 people, which meant I could foster a real "family" environment and idea. Not in the gay corporate sense, but in a real "I'm not calling off because that would make you guys have a bad day" one. And because I tried to keep things on the level with them, they'd do the same with me. They'd pick up slack on things I didn't notice, kept each other accountable without turning into drama, and stepped up when things got rough. Not all of them mind, but having a solid 2-3 guys getting your back does wonders.
The biggest contribution to that was I made sure I was always last to leave and made sure they knew I was better than them at this job. That's something a lot of management misses, making sure your employees know anything you can ask of them can do yourself and good enough to put you in charge. I'd always be knee deep in the shit with them, unflinchingly trying to be the example to keep shoveling. That did sometimes involve dick swinging contests to shoot guys in the pride enough to make them step up, which meant a lot of learning what motivation people had to maximize them (for others its family, either more or less hours for that, or the aforementioned letting them just go home in general).
I also argued with upper management nearly daily. Telling them to fuck off and stay out of our business as much as I could get away with was a constant. Keeping corporate fuckery out of our hair increased productivity immensely. As did outright refusing to do bullshit paperwork as much as possible, to avoid wasting time. Something a lot of managers fall for is just doing whatever they are told to do, and not realizing a lot of it is busy work that you can get away with skipping. Getting yelled at is meaningless until they fire you, so its a valuable tool to maximize.
one of the things I've always respected was a supervisor/manager who'd step up and help when things got rough. it's an instant ten points of respect.
Example: we just got a new mnager for our department. A lot of the guys bitch, because he tries to help, but he's inexperienced at the work (he came from food production. this is cabinetry). I keep trying to tell them, "this is the guy you want in your corner, even if he agrivates you. " The fact that he's slowing things down now by trying to learn just means he'll know what we're going through and be able to help more effectively in the future (besides, one of the guys all but actively sabotages productivity anyway, so I don't know what he's bitching about. Seriously, he spent an hour and a half one shift sleeping on a pile of doors >_># Wish I had the spine to say something to him, but because i don't, I have to just fume and try to do something productive around him)
It helps that I also just wanted to go home too, and if the work wasn't finished no one was leaving. So I had my own motivation to not skimp away for office bullshit and instead be working.
And a lot of people don't seem to grasp that you are training your management as much as they are training you. You need to foster in them what you want to see and benefit from, because it will pay off tenfold later. Too many people are willfully obstinate just because they hate authority or are too stubborn to understand they are making their own life harder by not working with their leadership.