My worst managers have been ex-programers who got promoted to management (too) early. One always seem to think solutions were quick and easy, but that's becaus

My worst managers have been ex-programers who got promoted to management (too) early. One always seem to think solutions were quick and easy, but that's because he never got to the stage where he could write reliable maintainable code. We were constantly fighting fires and he seemed to think that was normal. I am not convinced that giving people enough knowledge to be dangerous is a good thing.