This hit close to home. A manager at a previous company kept saying that his role was to support engineers and that management was a separate track, that he wa

This hit close to home. A manager at a previous company kept saying that his role was to support engineers and that management was a separate track, that he wasn’t my superior (probably from some internal training BS). He acted completely the opposite way. He obviously wielded more power by having more information, and, to add insult to injury, played tech lead as well. Suffice it to say, over the years almost all the original ICs have left his team, and he’s still wondering why he can’t get the team to run. Good riddance.