> the real reason was that they didn’t care about what the manager/employee was supposed to be doing. This is true of course, but you say it as if it’s a bad t

> the real reason was that they didn’t care about what the manager/employee was supposed to be doing. This is true of course, but you say it as if it’s a bad thing. At the end of the day, everyone has to manage their own time. If everyone only cared about chain of command and scheduled priorities, overall efficiency would plummet. Simple wins that just require a small amount of coordination outside the official org chart would be killed in committees and program manager reviews. I understand the exploitative dynamic you’re describing, I just think there are many failure modes for productive operations that have to be balanced in some meta way.