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Re:Turn Your Best Programmers into Managers by hackernewds on Saturday December 24, 2022 @07:18AM (#34116170)
Being a good manager is shielding your technical ICs from the whims and BS processes crafted by non-technical ICs.
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Re:Turn Your Best Programmers into Managers by mythhouse on Saturday December 24, 2022 @07:49AM (#34116336)
being a human BS shield doesn't sound like a job anyone would be excited to go to work everyday.

Ppl do this just for money?

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Re:Turn Your Best Programmers into Managers by ethanbond on Saturday December 24, 2022 @08:43AM (#34116710)
Well they also don’t think this is what the job actually is, so they pursue it incorrectly and then, shocker, become very bad managers.
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