Managerial Machinations
Being convinced that you’re always correct frequently highlights your ineptitude and inflexibility.
A short missive on the presumption of infallibility by the panopticon overloads that even now still roam the deserted offices of erstwhile software engineer labour camps. Yes, you know who I’m talking about.
I’m sure there are good managers around, somewhere, even though I’ve experienced very few of them during my decades spent in the trenches of the Grand Game of Software Engineering.
To me a good manager is a facilitator, someone who can remove problems that I shouldn’t have to deal with, provide the equipment I need to do my job, and at all other times just stay out of the way, hidden, ready to spring into action if needed.
Sure, they can even buy me lunch once in a while — as long as they don’t engage me in conversation about gym memberships, company cars, or how amazing it is that PowerPoint has some new animated slide transition or other.
What they shouldn’t be doing is bothering me all of the time about endless pointless company processes, attempting to repeatedly schedule meetings with me, or in any way interfering with the creative art form that is software engineering.
I mean, if you wanted a hand in the process, why didn’t you become a software engineer in the first…
