enkidu's Journal: What I want from my manager

Here's a quote from a post I made. I want to keep it around so I'm copying it here.

In work, I want three things from my manager:

1. Give me interesting, challenging work.
2. Give me honest feedback on how I'm doing.
3. Keep people (including my boss) from interfering with me and my work.

In return I do the following:

1. Do the work expected of me to the best of my ability.
2. Keep the boss informed as to what I'm doing and how it's going.
3. Give him honest feedback on him and my work.

I've given this mini-spiel at every interview I've had with whomever would be my immediate supervisor and I can get a good feel for what kind of company it is by their reaction.