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Re:Steve Jobs Said the Best Managers Never Want to Be Managers by mdorazio on Saturday December 03, 2022 @08:57AM (#33843492)
I’d say the worst managers are the ones who decide that management is the best path to money, competence and effort be damned.
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Re:Steve Jobs Said the Best Managers Never Want to Be Managers by ChuckNorris89 on Saturday December 03, 2022 @09:10AM (#33843583)
>management is the best path to money, competence and effort be damned

Basically every German company ever. ICs be dammed.

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Re:Steve Jobs Said the Best Managers Never Want to Be Managers by formerly_proven on Saturday December 03, 2022 @09:55AM (#33843910)
Where management is literally the only career path in almost every company.
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Re:Steve Jobs Said the Best Managers Never Want to Be Managers by thih9 on Saturday December 03, 2022 @09:59AM (#33843939)
And you get promoted until what you do changes so much that you’re not good at it anymore, so you can’t justify another promotion and you remain a middle manager.
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Re:Steve Jobs Said the Best Managers Never Want to Be Managers by xyzwave on Saturday December 03, 2022 @10:15AM (#33844063)
This is called the Peter Principle.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

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Re:Steve Jobs Said the Best Managers Never Want to Be Managers by nr2x on Saturday December 03, 2022 @08:45PM (#33849666)
I wonder if that’s why Google has so many badass ICs in Germany.
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Re:Steve Jobs Said the Best Managers Never Want to Be Managers by ChuckNorris89 on Sunday December 04, 2022 @06:06AM (#33852511)
Since when is Google a German company?
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Re:Steve Jobs Said the Best Managers Never Want to Be Managers by nr2x on Sunday December 04, 2022 @11:39AM (#33855174)
Very big engineering presence in Munich, also Zurich (which I realize is not Germany).
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Re:Steve Jobs Said the Best Managers Never Want to Be Managers by etempleton on Saturday December 03, 2022 @01:12PM (#33845762)
I would say the worst are those who like the power and authority management titles provide.
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Re:Steve Jobs Said the Best Managers Never Want to Be Managers by jokethrowaway on Saturday December 03, 2022 @01:36PM (#33846001)
They're not the worst, they're just a waste of money, they could just not exist and probably everyone else would be better off. They're a -2.

That said, there are plenty of managers who put in a lot of effort into ruining everyone else life to satisfy their ego or what their understanding of the job is. They're -100000.

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