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This is a ludicrous take. Read a book like high output management and learn what managers actually do and you might realize what value they should be providing.
by throwaway1777 6y ago
This is a ludicrous take. Read a book like high output management and learn what managers actually do and you might realize what value they should be providing.
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoBut sadly accurate if you've never worked with a good manager. Good managers are rare, and people who have never worked with one err on the side of assuming all managers are pointless wastes of space.
- sciprojguy 6y agoFormer software dev manager here. My job was split roughly into thirds - babysitting and mediating team issues, running interference to keep the executives out of my team's hair and bird-dogging HR and payroll issues. I would walk around sometimes and see if anyone needed me to expedite something or clear a blocker and I would go do it. (We were lucky in that we were working on something interesting and kind of ground-breaking so we didn't need a lot of "team building" rah rah to get everyone to work up the enthusiasm to work on a product nobody really cared about.)
- mbrodersen 6y agoMost managers are blissfully unaware how negative productive they are.