Re:Why Managers Fear a Remote-Work Future
by whateveracct on Friday July 30, 2021 @02:23PM
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lotta wannabe managers & CEOs on HN
and real ones who don't like that some people think they provide a lot less value to the world than they've convinced themselves
They always dogpile me when I say remote work means you can do 10-20hrs of work for the same pay as a FT office job. That puts them on full tilt - "how dare people work less."
If you're actually curious, the content of this post seems based in some sort of bitterness, like you have a specific axe to grind against management in general. I don't feel it contributes anything to the discussion, so I downvoted it. I'm a developer without subordinates.
It´s not bitterness. It´s a reality. In fact I worked as a manager for quite a time. Most managers are status seekers, and the freedom remote personnel has devalues their status, and they don´t like that at all.
HN != reddit
I feel that we are converging with each passing day.
Part of the status is signaled by showing how many <<subordinates>> they have and giving orders to them.
Part of the status is signaled by beign able to be out of office whenever they want vs the worker bees that must be at the office 9-to-5 M-to-F.
Having to politely ask things on slack to a worker bee that is probably working lying on a couch with a smoothie in it´s hand is a manager vision of hell.
tl;dr: it´s not a lack of workers performance, but a wounded manager ego.
edit: I have never been downvoted as fast as in this case. It took less that a minute. Did I struck a nerve?