Worst manager I ever had: abusive, liar, liked to punch down and kiss up, was not competent in any way, and was just really weird to people. It was right when the economy went bust, so I had nowhere to jump to. Luckily he took a job at Amazon, managing the group that made shopping lists. He wrote his old team and asked them to test the lists for him. I put 50 books on “dealing with horrible managers” in a list as a dig. Months later he emailed asking what was going on there? 🙄🤷😋
#BadManagers

A look at "lazy management", an alternative explanation to the claim that some tech employees drag down companies by raking in big paychecks and working little.

https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-industry-fake-work-problem-bad-managers-bosses-layoffs-jobs-2023-7?op=1

#Tech #Labor #BadManagers

@jacob @Seg on further reflection, it feels like my manager, who happens to be HR manager as well as Ops manager, had the CEO in to support *them*! #BadManagers #BadManagement

Poorly trained supervisors are the major problem in this sector. “Managers lacking the interpersonal skills of listening, coaching, effectively training, and caring for workers tend to supervise aggressively to mask their incompetence. Governments, with their starved budgets, first cut training to save. Unfortunately, the consequence is to inflict health-harming mistreatment on the public sector workforce,” says WBI. #government #workplacebullying #BadManagers #racism #misogyny

#BadManagers 🌪️https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/18/elon-musk-twitter-billionaire-awful-boss