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So, tell me why it is that when someone gets promoted to a managerial position they absolutely, positively can't fire some incompetent asshole that THEY chose to hire? Sure they can fire peons beneath them. They can fucking fire them in gobs and handfulls. They can even happily setup mass execution-style firings but if they gotta touch someone who's even remotely a manager (multiple levels under them) it takes a fucking act of god to get rid of them.

How many times have you heard or seen competent technical persons get laid off or fired and the ass-munch that managed the group just go on like nothing ever happened? What the hell happened to being responsible for your department? What the hell happened to leading from the front-line? It doesn't exist today, I'm beginning to doubt it ever existed except for a few rare people who are now legendary figures in history (Rommel for one, Patton for another).

It seems to me that once a manager is hired he becomes a part of this huge web. This web connects the nuts of all the managers in the company. If one were to get yanked, they'd ALL get castrated at the same time. It's fucking astonishing to see someone so fucking worthless in charge with EVERYONE in the company knowing it and no one in a position of power doing a thing, no matter what it's actually costing in wasted time and effort. Apparently it's more important to maintain the myth that they never made a mistake in the first place, than fire the jerk at the core of why their work is late, expensive, or just fucking wrong.

You reach a certain level of professional cynicism when you see entire departments of grunts fired, people who are actually useful, productive members of the company and society and the loser at the top - who makes the salary of 5 grunts combined - get kept on. To do what? Fuck up the next project of course.

In a few rare instances they do get promoted out of harms way, but why keep them in the first place?

Yeah, if there's one thing for certain... I'm not management material. I don't care, no matter who I hired to do what, if they sucked I'd can their ass faster than I hired them. But that's just me.