> It's my experience and if you think you know better than me what the real value of managers is in my world
Your inability to judge of the value of a manager, even a bad manager, doesn't make someone else delusional.
Reductively, if it were really the case that no one cared about the slide decks your managers were presenting, they'd be told to stop and do other things instead. So clearly someone does. That someone obviously isn't you, but that doesn't really matter if someone else gains enough value from that communication.
> Your inability to judge of the value of a manager, even a bad manager, doesn't make someone else delusional.
Doubling down on the arrogance! Funny stuff.
Do you make all these assumptions about things you know nothing about in your actual job as well?
> that doesn't really matter if someone else gains enough value from that communication
It would matter if the managers cared about all the employee time they were wasting with these meetings. Managers could present to only the people who care and not demand the attendance of those for whom the material is uninformative.
I did acknowledge the technical accuracy of your statement, implicitly, before moving on to something more interesting. It's just too banal of a point to spend a full sentence on. Of course someone is demanding these slides. Feel free to mentally amend my original claim. Sometimes I write in a humorous, rough way, maybe it isn't for you.
Don't worry, I don't hold all managers in contempt based on my own limited experience in my particular org of my particular company in my particular industry. I'll make sure to update this post if I come into contact with ones whose contribution I respect more.
Your inability to judge of the value of a manager, even a bad manager, doesn't make someone else delusional.
Reductively, if it were really the case that no one cared about the slide decks your managers were presenting, they'd be told to stop and do other things instead. So clearly someone does. That someone obviously isn't you, but that doesn't really matter if someone else gains enough value from that communication.