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This just in; managers are useless and CEO’s and executives are useless fuckin parasites, and literally any entry-level front line employee knows vastly more about the job than the dipshit sitting in meetings with other dipshits in a giant dipshit circle jerk.

I mean this is true, the most shocking thing to me is that it seems to only now be reaching public consciousness

True. I mean, lots of us have been saying it for literal years.

When I put in my two weeks’ notice at Target, the managers flipped their shit because I was the only person who knew how to staff the front end, where all of the important documents were kept, how to document the safe when we needed to cash out to registers, who to contact at the armored truck service and the bank, and how to count out and document the safe.

THE STORE AND HR MANAGERS WERE RELYING ON AN HOURLY NON-MANAGER WHO WORKED TWENTY-EIGHT HOURS A WEEK FOR ACTUAL FINANCIAL DOCUMENTATION.

They also relied on “team leads” (read: supervisors in all but pay and benefits) to handle all of the interpersonal situations among their staff, and I was receiving calls from Target management up to two weeks after my final day because they didn’t know where shit was in their own office or why there was a sudden meltdown between three of the front-end departments after I left.

lol management means fuck all.

What most executives actually spend their days doing is sitting in meetings, filling in forms and communicating information. In other words, they are bureaucrats. But being a bureaucrat is not particularly exciting. It also doesn’t look very good on your business card. To make their roles seem more important and exciting than they actually are, corporate executives become leadership addicts. They read leadership books. They give lengthy talks to yawning subordinates about leadership. But most importantly they attend many courses, seminars and meetings with ‘leadership’ somewhere in the title. The content of many of these leadership-development courses would not be out of place in a kindergarten or a New Age commune. There are leadership-development courses where participants are asked to lead a horse around a yard, use colouring-in books, or build Lego – all in the name of developing them as leaders.

At least $14 billion gets spent every year on leadership development in the US alone yet, according to researchers such as Jeffrey Pfeffer at Stanford, it has virtually no impact on improving the quality of leaders. In our own research, we found that most employees in knowledge-intensive firms didn’t need much leadership. People working at the coalface were self-motivated and often knew their jobs much better than their bosses did. Their superiors’ cack-handed attempts to be leaders were often seen as a pointless distraction from the real work. George, a manager in a high-tech engineering firm, told us he saw himself as a very ‘open’. When we asked his subordinates what he actually did, they told us that he provides breakfast in the morning and runs an annual beer-tasting.

WHOOP there it is.

Working in a stupefied firm often means blinding others with bullshit. A very effective way to get out of doing anything real is to rely on a flurry of management jargon. Develop strategies, generate business models, engage in thought leadership. This will get you off the hook of doing any actual work. It will also make you seem like you are at the cutting edge. When things go wrong, you can blame the fashionable management idea.

WHOOP THERE IT IS

And finally, from the comments, my man Dan here knocks it outta the park

Anyway eat all executives 2k20.

Anyone who knows what a ceo does should have always realized it may as well be retirement. They do no hard work. They don’t have special talents they utilize. It’s a joyride that seizes most of the money earned by the real workers, it always has been.

(via witchydarling)