I don't have much hope that we'll soon have fewer layers of leadership, but I believe that a lot of us here feel that the company would prosper if it got rid of most of them?
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A lot of the Problem is Middle Managers
It occurs to me that the C-Level and ownership class are one thing. But there’s this vast cadre of jumped-up, pissant, petty tyrants that are the only reason the anti-worker rules get enforced.
They are doing better than the average worker, sure. But for a lot of them it’s not just the money, it’s sh\tting on people for fun, making up rules and generally being utter f*ck-faced arseholes.
Lot of people going to need a stiff talking-to when the revolution comes.
You could be right as emotion rather than HBR logic seems to be where our deciders minds appear to be. That said there tends to be two approaches to the idea of middle managers:
This is where the real work is done and the trains keep moving.
They’re mostly su-king halfway-decent salaries and doing absolutely nothing.