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This is like saying you don't like Generals managing Colonels. https://www.army.mil/ranks/ https://www.army.mil/ranks/
by bentt 4y ago
This is like saying you don't like Generals managing Colonels.
https://www.army.mil/ranks/ https://www.army.mil/ranks/
- whateveracct 4y ago[flagged]
- Waterluvian 4y agoI’m sure the answer is “history” but it’s weird to me that a Lieutenant General outranks a Major General but a Major outranks a Lieutenant.
- xen0 4y agoStart with one Sergeant Major General, then cut the off letters to taste.
- dragonwriter 4y ago“Lieutenant” is etymologically “placeholder”, and was originally used for top-level underlings; in a sense a “Lieutenant” is that for a Captain, a “Lieutenant Colonel” is that for a Colonel, a “Lieutenant General” is that for a General (or, in some systems, a “Colonel General” – in which case you can think of a Lieutenant General being a Lieutenant Colonel General, in which case it falls exactly where you’d expect in relation to a Major General, given how Major is just below Lieutenant Colonel.)
- Waterluvian 4y agoOhhhhh. So a Major is kind of: a Major to the Lieutenant to the Colonel. A Major General is a Major to the Lieutenant to the General. This actually makes sense. I’m guessing the answer to “why do the ranks not line up among branches of service” is “history”? “I’m a Captain!” “Army or Navy?”
- next_xibalba 4y agoThe context here is that at Meta there is a perverse incentive to create management roles where none are needed. I can say with direct knowledge that some orgs within Meta are insanely vertical. To the point where one has to wonder what all the middle management types are even doing. They are about to get Zucked.
- conqrr 4y agoYou mean the meta point? :) The same applies to a lot of companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce etc I'd think it would be more optimal to prune at these middle layers and reassign the leaf nodes, instead of pruning at the nodes if a company wants to has overhired.
- next_xibalba 4y agoPun taken . I suspect the decision to prune leaf before branch nodes was strategic and intended to expose dead branches.
- __derek__ 4y agoIs it? Should Meta's hierarchy be similar to the military's ranks?