My Bosses at McKinsey Made Us Get on 2 A.m. Zoom Calls

Re:My Bosses at McKinsey Made Us Get on 2 A.m. Zoom Calls by pknomad on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:49PM (#28529160)

Sorry that you had to experience something like this.

While it never happened to me, but apparently one of my colleague's manager got a direct phone call from his manager because "he was not responding to slack messages fast enough."

I suspect places that house managers like yours and mine has no interest in dis-incentivizing these behavior and will stay that way for the foreseeable future.

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Re:My Bosses at McKinsey Made Us Get on 2 A.m. Zoom Calls by burntoutsophos on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @04:33PM (#28530666)

Apart from lack of interest in dis-incentivizing this behavior, two possible reasons come to mind - why managers like these exist:

1. (Nature) Some of them were just tuned that way since childhood.

2. (Nurture) When these managers were junior employees, some/all of their past managers micro-managed them similarly, which built up resentment inside them and instead of rejecting these traits & becoming a better human, these junior employees decided to 'Pay it forward' in the worst way possible and ergo, continue the vicious cycle.

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