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> And then... We realized how much politics, uncertainty, churn, screaming, changing requirements, ambiguous priorities and other carp he protected us from :-/
by ilyt 4y ago
> And then... We realized how much politics, uncertainty, churn, screaming, changing requirements, ambiguous priorities and other carp he protected us from :-/
Over years I've noticed like 80% of those is because other managers are terrible and it so happens that the dept. I'm in takes some of the fallout of their mess.
- vishnugupta 4y ago>...because other managers are terrible... It's interesting you should say this because this is one of the categories of Bullshit jobs as defined by David Graeber in his book. And incidentally only y'day I was listening to him on a podcast[1] speaking about BS jobs. His favourite example is corporate lawyers. Companies are forced to hire them just because other companies have them and are in fear of getting sued. I hadn't thought of managers to fall in this category, which makes sense. [1] https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/srsly-wrong/id872292891?i=1000412336655 https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/srsly-wrong/id87229289...