Are you misusing the term “middle management” to mean the bottom-level managers? Or are you saying that most requests for permission are going 3 levels up? Mos

Are you misusing the term “middle management” to mean the bottom-level managers? Or are you saying that most requests for permission are going 3 levels up? Most requests for permission are probably going to direct managers at the bottom because that’s who most employees report to. I can’t imagine taking every request to my director. He’d ask me why I’m wasting his time and tell me to do my job.