I'm watching this happen right now with a person on my team who got bumped up two levels in less than a year. On paper, he looked great, lots of years in the industry, confident in interviews, talked a big game about process improvement. In practice, he doesn't understand the basics of what we do, he's broken two different workflows because he changed things without asking, and the rest of us spend about five hours a week quietly undoing his mistakes. The person who promoted him clearly didn't do any real checking. Now the rest of us are paying for it, and the guy himself is clearly stressed and embarrassed. It's a failure at every level and it happens here constantly.
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you are a worker and the person is a politician. Workers just lose all the time to the politician and fix all the mistakes the person makes.
just harsh truth everywhere...
you don't get promoted by working hard. you get promoted by ta
@OP you described my Sr Director who is also dyslexic, talks with a lisp, and forces everything into AI. he holds up every project. not a serious person. bet we are on same team
@OP Let it fail.
Step 1: Abandon all hope that they’re going to put better people in charge. It’s simply not how they operate.
Step 2: Come up with a viable exit strategy
Step 3: Start to carefully and quietly executing on said strategy
Step 4: Escape from Shawshank without making any noise. Watch or rewatch the movie for inspiration
@a2 When in Rome do as romans do!