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I worked at a place where it was somewhat common to have a manager with one report. It was usually because the report was such a screw-up, instead of firing the
by bluedino 6y ago
I worked at a place where it was somewhat common to have a manager with one report. It was usually because the report was such a screw-up, instead of firing the person they would bring someone in to 'manage them'.
Then, they'd blame the manager when the report screwed up, fire him, and bring in another manager...
- giancarlostoro 6y agoAmazing the many ways companies waste resources.
- kshacker 6y agoOh wow I just took the opposite view in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23967235 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23967235
- blablabla123 6y agoI've also worked at a similar place. I don't know why but somehow they never wanted to have teams with more than 1 person except maybe for a few months. Fluctuation was crazy. At the end the company was shrinked considerably from 30-40 people to 5 people and now they work only on projects with state funding.