Are you an IC? It’s different for us... we are measured by our ability to get a job done. Management doesn’t get anything “done”. Their job is to faithfully re

Are you an IC? It’s different for us... we are measured by our ability to get a job done. Management doesn’t get anything “done”. Their job is to faithfully represent the interests of the managers above them. Maintaining good terms with their superiors is their only actual job. Everything else can be going to shit and as long as their superior feels they are faithfully representing their will, then that lower level manager is in good standing. In fact being in an inferno of chaos and still continuing to represent the interests of your superior, over the cries of the ICs, that is truly star-level manager performance. As a side note, this is why managers don’t have employment protections (right to organize, etc). Their job is not to work, but to represent the company. In an important way they are not producing labor. For someone like that, it’s actually crucial to leave on good terms. Especially the closer you get to the billionaire class, the circles get smaller and smaller, and it’s your ability to maintain good feelings with other people in that class that determines your ability to get future work. So, the company can be failing... that’s fine. It’s important to management personnel that they leave with a kind word, because otherwise it meant they stopped doing their one job.