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Managers have no human rights

Here are some thoughts which are often basically correct: - Every time I try to do the right thing here, it's like the place actively resists it. Actually, forget "the right thing" - it's whenever I try to do pretty much anything.

"Individual contributors" can be fairly non-competitive, certainly in an industry like computing where demand for workers outstrips supply, there's enough work for everyone, and where you know a ton of trivia about your area that anyone else would need lots of time to learn if they had to step into your shoes. And the theoretical impossibility of managers being truly informed on the subjects falling under their responsibility guarantees that their never-ending competition involves a lot of so-called " misinformation, disinformation and malinformation." In fact, all the unfortunate circumstances above - like the difficulty getting things done across the proverbial (organizational) boundaries, deranged convulsions around "strategy," schedule chicken, and of course the scheming & the gaslighting - all this shit flows first and foremost from the competition between managers as well as the organization competing in the external world.

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