This article builds on the premise that a few employees are assholes and none of the managers are. In my experience, the reality is the exact opposite, where a

This article builds on the premise that a few employees are assholes and none of the managers are. In my experience, the reality is the exact opposite, where all managers (especially those at the higher level) are assholes. In that case, none of the considerations of the article seem to be useful. Yet, it is a fun read, especially the "unrelated" pictures and the colorful language. I am surprised by this sentence: > Formalizing social skills as part of the job description can help with this. This kind of thing leads to a subtle but most damaging form of management assholery, whereby employees are "invited" to participate in social gatherings at expensive places, and are frowned upon if they don't participate.