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Don't let awful managers guilt trip you
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this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2026
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I once listened to a presentation by a guy who had this really elaborate plan, based on everyone doing their jobs absolutely perfectly, with nothing going wrong at all. If anything skipped a beat, anywhere along the way, the entire house of cards would come down.
I asked what would happen if someone didn't accomplish their objectives, and he said they would. But what if they didn't? They will. That's when I said, you aren't taking the human factor into account, and he said that the solution is to "fire the human, and get a new human."
Meanwhile, "Nobody wants t' werk!!!".
Okay, cool. What happens while you're training that new human? Trainees will operate at substantially less efficiency than expected while learning and may for a while afterwards too, depending on complexity of the work. What happens if one of those humans gets hurt or sick?
Dude really was a moron, wasn't he?
My managers always had a simple solution to this problem: pretend that new programmers fresh out of college require no on-the-job training at all. Or for bonus points, pretend that they're even better than the guys who have been doing this for decades and pay them more.
Nah, new humans aren't trained in this day and age anymore. Managers just say to use AI instead. We can see this with the high unemployment rate of graduates.
A leading hypothesis is management are fucking stupid. Throw them back into the trenches. Let them do some actual work for a few years
The problem there is that eventually you don't have trenches any more.
It's easy to tell which managers were promoted from within and which were external hires with no hands on experience.
I don't think hands on experience is necessary, but you need to have a comprehensive understanding of the work being done by people you oversee. That becomes increasingly difficult as your position moves you from the front line, which I think is one reason upper management and executives often seem like aliens compared to the rank and file and lower management.
He's not the only one. The Neo-Feudalists really think they are the only human species that exists whilst everyone else is a Neanderthal Serf