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I understand your upset and feel the same. One thing that I dislike here is this: we are starting somehow with the premise that people are malformed. The job o
by jmercouris 6y ago
I understand your upset and feel the same. One thing that I dislike here is this: we are starting somehow with the premise that people are malformed.
The job of a manager is not to mold people into correct shapes. Unless you are dealing with trivial work, you cannot bend other intelligent beings to your tyrannical circle shaped will.
If you are a triangle, the manager is supposed to help you be the best triangle you can be. They are supposed to arrange and connect the pieces of the puzzle together.
Instead, this manager believes that is the managers job to mold their units into identical circles. Disgusting.
- nostromo95 6y agoYou are definitely misinterpreting the metaphor... ‘Shape’ != personal identity or ability. Shape is the sum of the work someone does (in fact, a triangle—if that even has any meaning over a circle in this framework—is a perfectly acceptable shape bc it’s convex and simple). If one of a manager’s jobs isn’t to coordinate what work everyone does I’m not sure what you think managers do.
- nine_zeros 6y agoThis. If I am handling all the work, what exactly does a manager do?
- jmercouris 6y agoA manager is supposed to coordinate you and help you be the best you can be. They are not supposed to shape you, only to provide you with the resources that you may need.
- nine_zeros 6y agoAnd they often don't coordinate and instead choose to criticize because apparently at that level, an engineer needs to figure out "everything".