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Re:Shopify Elevated the Non-Manager Career Path and Ditched ... by nine_zeros on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @09:20PM (#36703945)
> Once you get to a point in management seniority, everything that goes wrong is your fault.

Guess whose fault it becomes once the line manager is being blamed from above.

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Re:Shopify Elevated the Non-Manager Career Path and Ditched ... by vkou on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @09:50PM (#36704123)
He can blame you all he wants, but firing you is unlikely to ship whatever he wants faster.
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Re:Shopify Elevated the Non-Manager Career Path and Ditched ... by nine_zeros on Thursday July 13, 2023 @12:38AM (#36705078)
I still get fired, despite having done nothing wrong. The company doesn't want engineers fired for BS reasons. Only the manager wants it.

Management games are detrimental to innovation.

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