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Management is an utter bullshit job that is all about headcount and promo documents at this point. Society and companies can live without this.
by nine_zeros 3y ago
Management is an utter bullshit job that is all about headcount and promo documents at this point. Society and companies can live without this.
- AgentOrange1234 3y agoAs a manager at $megacorp, hiring and promo docs are maybe 5% of my job.
- cqqxo4zV46cp 3y agoI love Hacker News. So many people here strive to work for FAANG or some other bloated SV tech company with a free-money grow-or-die mindset, and proceed adopt this view of management as if it’s an immoveable, universal truth. Without me, my team would drown in less than a week. Say what you want about that implying a lack of resilience, or that I’m not teaching a man to fish, but it’s the current reality. I work insanely hard to ensure that they can do their best work, that their best work always gets better, and that they get the most out of their time in my team, distraction-free. I work insanely hard to smooth over organisational politics, communications failures, and so many other things that every day without fail so many people in this community bitch and moan about. This is an anonymous account, there’s no benefit to me self-promoting. I’d never be this confidently candid were my name attached, no matter who I was talking to. Maybe you should go find a better team to work for.
- xvilka 3y agoManagers are definitely needed. The problem is the amount and their tendency to accrue unnecessary "fat" in their teams. It's not an uncommon in big companies to see people who have multiple managers at once and have to report to the multiple people/teams. Or having ridiculously high manager/worker ratio.