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The jerks with power who appear bad at their job are actually good at their real job and that's politicking. They're only bad at their nominal job, whatever it
by User23 7y ago
The jerks with power who appear bad at their job are actually good at their real job and that's politicking. They're only bad at their nominal job, whatever it may be, which doesn't matter by definition since they are successful enough to have power.
- postfacto 7y ago^^ This. Also, your real job is making your manager look good to his manager, not actually the nominal job of writing reliable, stable, flexible code that you signed up for in your employment agreement.