why management cultures appear so reluctant to eject malignant managers?
A typical engineer will gladly stab another in the back for something so trivial as what nearly-identical-anyway programming language or framework or IDE to use. Meanwhile managers, like lawyers, accountants, doctors, teachers and every other profession, prioritise solidarity within the profession. We can debate whether that’s good or bad but there’s no doubt why they prosper while engineers are the first to be outsourced or exploited.
Very true. I have noticed this too at my company. Other departments promote people more, hire faster, waste money on offsite fun meetings whereas engineering rarely promotes people and generally makes each other’s lives miserable. In the Gervais principle hierarchy I definitely feel we are the losers.
Don’t know if you ever worked as a lawyer but “solidarity” isn’t a core value.
Solidarity to the profession. They may squabble amongst themselves but they’ll never compromise the general prestige of lawyering. Nor tell the client that what they do is easy and anyone can learn it, even if that’s true.
A typical engineer will gladly stab another in the back for something so trivial as what nearly-identical-anyway programming language or framework or IDE to use. Meanwhile managers, like lawyers, accountants, doctors, teachers and every other profession, prioritise solidarity within the profession. We can debate whether that’s good or bad but there’s no doubt why they prosper while engineers are the first to be outsourced or exploited.