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Sorry, but a good architect bully is not a bit better than a bad manager bully.

• maccard 5y ago
  Someone who is a bad manager and a bully may actually be a fine architect and not a bully, once they are no longer in a position of power over people. Not a guarantee, but in my experience changing the formal power dynamic can have very unexpected (both positive and negative) effects
• edgyquant 5y ago
  You can tell the architect with no power over you to, politely, go fuck themselves. You can not do this to your manager.
  • squarefoot 5y ago
    True, although in a few cases I've witnessed the bully without superpowers becoming a lapdog of some higher level boss, so essentially all he had to do was go crying mommy to the boss to have someone moved to other tasks or fired. Bad bosses need lapdogs.
    • edgyquant 5y ago
      Yeah but that seems like it’d be time to look for work elsewhere
  • ATsch 5y ago
    This is very naive but more importantly, there are more than enough engineers out there that there's no need to risk creating a hostile workplace by employing bullies anywhere in your organisation. Why are you so intent in employing them?