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veen · 3026 days ago · link · · parent · post: Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3 Trillion Per Year
A few years ago I did a summer job at a community college's back office. I basically took over someone's full time job there for two months. After my first week there, the new manager started his job there too. The woman I worked with was always drowning in work answering hundreds of emails and a few dozen calls a day, while I never saw him do much besides strolling around, questioning / distracting colleagues and getting coffee. I'm sure there are enough managers that keep projects and business going, but I am also certain that there are many that are not really helping much. (Best part of that job was all the gossip that went around the office. 18-yo me was a confidant for, like, 4 different people gossiping about each other.)