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> Your manager...“I don’t [know how it goes]. I went to business school.” There's the problem. Organizations whose leaders aren't able to discern your actual
by trentnix 2y ago
> Your manager...“I don’t [know how it goes]. I went to business school.”
There's the problem.
Organizations whose leaders aren't able to discern your actual value are going to be miserable places to work. You play their games or baffle them with BS. But you don't get to attain any sort of authentic actualization.
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Take my pessimistic commentary with a grain of salt. I'm job searching at the moment for a software manager role and the opportunity landscape is a wasteland of b2b insurance widget companies, usury companies, and AI dead-ends. If you want to build things that help real people, you may have to DIY.
- SkipperCat 2y agoIf someone told me "I don't know. I went to business school", I'd then ask "So why are you managing programmers, shouldn't you be managing business people?" But all joking aside, I think there are few MBAs so dense as the one portrayed in this article. Sadly, I'll probably be proven wrong...
- stephenbez 2y agoSomehow software engineers can be as dense as the MBA in the example. I had a manager who used to be a dev. He remarked that a certain teammate is really productive and gets so much done. I asked how he knew and he said that when the teammate is on call he is able to close a large number of tickets. I showed him that the teammate just closed all the tickets as “self resolved” or “can’t reproduce”.
- em-bee 2y agoi am missing the real punchline. did the manager accept the explanation and change his view?