Erm. This may be a nitpick, but managers are people and as such we have actual, real feelings. Ironically, a good manager will generally have a pretty solid am

Erm. This may be a nitpick, but managers are people and as such we have actual, real feelings. Ironically, a good manager will generally have a pretty solid amount of empathy because that's key to being good at the job. So if it's not okay to crap on engineers (it's not) then it's also not okay to crap on managers. NB: not affiliated with Microsoft. Edit: Freudian slip.