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Originally Posted by kirklancaster
Off topic, but a serious question now T.S. because - as you know - I respect your views:
Do you ever feel that your immediate superiors - Area Managers or whatever - know feck all about the job and that you 'carry' them?
I cannot help but draw that conclusion whenever I come into contact with companies, including my wife's firm, where the greater percentage of middle to higher management are useless buffoons and are usually braggadocios who actually know very little of the work they are being well paid for, and who do not deserve their salaries.
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Yes. I know it sounds like trumpet-blowing, but as a massive underachiever (top school grades, top University offers, MOST of a degree
) I can say quite confidently that most of the supervisory / area manager level staff are... To be blunt... Uneducated and unintelligent.
Worse still is that I've worked alongside plenty of very bright staff and watched them be passed over time and time again (the ones who are really trying, I'd be lying if I said I'm in that boat
) because, for those roles, they don't want clever and imaginative people with ideas for working independently. They want jobsworths who will do as they are told. Blindly following whichever insane idea the folks in London (who never set a foot on ground level) have come up with, then they berate us for a while when these plans inevitably fail miserably... Before accepting that it was a bad plan, and coming up with another. Usually it's worse.
Its been getting worse recently, too. A few years ago we had a decent level of autonomy and could do things that WE knew would work... And they often worked very well. The structure of the company then changed and they now want "cookie cutter" conformity across the company. I have no idea why. It's impersonal, and people hate it. We're not even allowed to buy Halloween decorations - they send a little box with a few things and a diagram of exactly where to place them...
I also have a good friend who is very successful in a pensions investment company... Who described our company structure, when I described it to him, as "literally one of the worse he's ever heard".
