Manager does not show up in meetings and evades 1:1

I moved to this team about 3 years ago hoping to learn new things and advance career, but managed to land the greatest piece of $hit of a manager who does not care at all. This person does not show up in our huddles or meetings or even area level meetings. Offers no career guidance or advice and even insights discussions are vague without any specific feedback or suggestions for areas of improvement. Sometimes, this person does not even show up in scheduled 1:1s!

I feel bad for some genuinely good folks who were laid off in Nov and somehow this person has managed to stick around. The peer level managers are all aware of this person's incompetence but don't do anything about it. Skip level does not know anything since he/she is relatively new. How can I bring it to his/her notice and initiate action against this incompetent cr-p of a manager?

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Get a job in a different group.
If things go bad in your current project, your manager will blame everyone but him.
You're going under the bus.

You are taking a huge risk to call this out. You may as well start wearing a shirt will a bullseye on the front and back because you are making yourself a target. Do your job and find ways to deal with your manager so that they don't prevent you from doing your job. There is no future at Intel so stop worrying about having career growth conversations.

We have more than one of this type of managers in our org who do nothing for the most of the time and occasionally jump in a meeting talking nonsense way off the topic like a clown embarrasses me and the whole team. Talked to skip level and does nothing about it.

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Is right. Why play coy. Hold them accountable

Careful. Everything you do at Intel comes back to you at some point.

Isn’t there a proper pronoun for he/she?

Stop protecting them call them out or tell us what team you are on

You can have a group meeting with skip level manager, this should fix the issue. Also you can even give this in writing , your skip level can take that to HR and get him removed from manager position and make him into an IC,

Note I myself did this for one of my FLM bc he was incompetent and based on feedback from
Direct reports so this is definitely possible, if more of you reporting to him feel the same.

If enough of your team feels the same then take it to the 2nd level. If it's just you then maybe you need to ask why.

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