How often do you talk to your manager

Maybe twice, or three times a week.

She is a awful manager! I share a office with my manager and two other colleagues. We're basically talking all day long, as well as having catch up meetings every other day.

I speak to the partner in charge of our team many times a day every day. Would be odd not to

Every day. My manager is the team leader, we are in constant contact with a team group chat.

I rarely hear from my manager. Just for 1-2-1s every month or 2 months. I can never get hold of her when I need her to discuss urgent matters. I like a manager to be more involved but I know some of my colleagues love being left alone.

Pretty much daily. I’m quite senior so she is more so. She asks my advice and vice versa, she’s far more diplomatic than I am and guides me through the pernicious office politics to get my own way. I’m a specialist and can advise her on other stuff. We have a pretty good relationship (even though I kinda hate my job - well, my organisation. I would like it if it weren’t for the poisonous cabal at the top).

My immediate management team either sees me in person or rings me once a shift.

I'm in a safety critical role so communication and good teamwork is essential.

My ultimate boss is in touch a few times a month but his role isn't in the frontline much, however he'll help out if needed.

I have a monthly one-to-one with my manager. It's definitely not enough.

How can you sit two computers away and not talk?
Any offices I’ve been in, loud ones and much quieter ones, there was always chatting and interaction at some level.
So one job I probably spent most of the day with my manager, in meeting, out and about meeting clients, talking about our weekend, our family or what holiday we’d booked. Then we’d chat about anything to do with work the rest of the day.

Another office was super quiet in comparison and the manager was anti social and had his own office but we still saw or spoke to him at least twice a day. It would have been much more if he had been out of his office.

Now with remote working it can be a lot less of course. But I find it odd if she’s sat near you! Doesn’t she even say hi or bye or want to come to lunch etc?!

Weekly one to one meeting which is sometimes very full of work, sometimes chatty, opportunity to discuss anything bothering me.

Daily check ins but we’re an in-person workplace so often I will just pop into his office as we have a fair bit of confidential stuff to discuss and I share an office with my team.

That's bizarre!

I lead a team in a school so we are not in an office as we have our own classrooms and teach most of the day. I still make sure I check in and chat to my staff every day. I would consider it poor form on my part if I didn't!

My own line manager works on a different floor and officially we meet once a fortnight but I still speak to her everyday, even if it's brief.

If you attempt to speak to her and she doesn't respond or engage with you, maybe go back to her manager.

Several times a day, I sit next to her….shes very nice. If we’re working at home, we don’t talk unless we need something from each other.

That does sound odd, particularly when you sit so close to them! I speak to my manager daily, both about work and general things. I also talk to the team I manage daily in exactly the same way. We've got a fabulous team (very lucky) and all work well together. I get why you feel your situation is bizarre - I would too!

Depends, my line manager is a weird figure head because the team is too big to be technically managed by the program leaders so I o ly see her a couple times a year for actual meetings but make small talk when I see her in the corridor.

If I have an actual issue there is a separate type of hierarchy that we follow. But academia is weird so probably not related to your issue

Thankfully once a week at most. Then again she made it clear she doesn't like me and is a micromanager having observed how she is with other coworkers, so for me thank god it's once a week. I also think she is useless and wonder how she fills her day sometimes

Every day

Weird. Our team including the manager chats throughout the day. General work stuff about clients and helping each other out, letting each other know when we’re going to lunch and a bit of office chit chat.

One girl only speaks when spoken to and she is ND. She is chatty and funny when you make the effort.

Maybe on Monday you could ask after her weekend. See what kind of response you get. At the very least, if you attempt to engage her and she’s unresponsive, you can go back to your manager’s manager about it. Really though, I’m surprised the senior person wasn’t more concerned about her discussing work stuff and checking in with you.

Most work days unless one or other of us not there that day.

This is crazy to me. Her work IS you.

I have loads of other stuff going on, as I work in operations, but as a people manager my priority is my team. That's literally what I'm paid to do, look after my team.

She calls me once a year with my raise and bonus. I'm remote. She approves my time sheet electronically, so no contact required on that front. I would not be able to identify her in a photograph.

I "support' another person, but he is not my manager. I could be let go and he wouldn't be consulted or told.

It is super weird.

How do you know what to do? Is there never a change in policy?

One manager rang me 5 times a day.. for social chats 🤦🏽‍♀️

Current manager - once every 2 weeks, for about 7 seconds and normally for a yes/no answer