My manager loves to do "action planning" and he pushes me to do it with my own team. He thinks unless they are performing perfectly which is impossible then they need to be on an informal action plan. Every time our results are less than the goal no matter how small or for how long we have to write up an action plan for him. It creates more work, more emails, more tasks, etc. This method trickles down. Like many corporations, our metrics are unattainable. They also change throughout the year. The goal post moves. They've changed our official goals twice this year when they hired new leadership. One metric we don't even have a goal for yet and it's basically August. Some of the goals they have are also out of employee control much of the time, like surveys. They also love to "dangle the carrot" which I hate. Anyone else's company do something different? Is there a better way?

I accepted a management position over 6 months ago and I am very unhappy in it. It was one of those promotions that fell into my lap because I was doing a "good job" and they wanted to give me more responsibility and I felt pressured and didn't want to "waste" an opportunity so I accepted it. The pay is okay, but the stress multiplied tenfold. I work a ton of hours now. It's high stress. High urgency. There are a ton of pointless meetings. A lot of interaction is required daily. I am forced to worry about my teams production metrics. There are hundreds of unnecessary emails. It's customer facing so there a lot of escalation calls and arguments too. I would like to "descend the ladder" but I feel stuck now. The company is remote which is great and that seems increasingly rare these days so I don't necessarily want to leave. I just want to do my job and go home and focus on other important things in my life. I doubt seriously my manager would let me apply for for a new role now not having mastered this one. Leadership is a typical corporate, loves the company, focuses heavily on the metrics and production. Also encourages doing "extra" things outside of the job scope. I am finding it challenging at times to set boundaries. Also typically to apply to another position, you need to wait a year. 1. How am I supposed to tell my manager I don't like this new role? Have I even given it a fair shot? 2. If I am stuck doing it for the time being, is there a way to make a front line managerial role a "lazy girl job" because as a manager don't you have to care about all the team metrics and numbers and stuff?