• anon_water@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago
    • Manager has been there for 5+ years.
    • Manager doesn’t do any work.
    • All responsibility to deliver is on team, not leadership.
    • Leadership takes over ownership at the end of a successful project to promote themselves.
    • Pizza parties with free beer
    • smeg@feddit.uk
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      6 months ago

      Manager has been there for 5+ years.

      In my experience this is fine, it’s the ones who never stay in a role for more than two years you’ve got to watch out for. They seem to use each position as a temporary stepping stone on their career climb and rarely care about the team or the product!

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        Yeah. Two years is just about long enough for a company to figure out that a manager is useless.

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        External hire managers are the worst, they come in and have no idea how the company/product/department works (not their fault) so they tend to rely on sales-guru style tactics and rhetoric that just end up costing a bunch of time sucking each other off instead of, ya know, getting the job done.