> their job is to give someone for their boss to have in his little fiefdom.
In my friends' case, he didn't really want a little fiefdom or even to be a manager.
The problem was that they made it clear that the only way to get promoted and move up the salary ladder was to become a manager of a team. So by converting his one-person role into a job that had to be done by several people, he could justify hiring a team underneath him and therefore getting a significant raise and better title.
It's weird to hear them describe how everyone seemingly knows the game is broken, but they're open about how it needs to be played.
Yep, pay is directly tied to how many people are under you.
And it should be no surprise that this is how it works. The operational side is hired by the academic side which is even more crazy. It's made up mostly of people who have never had a job outside of school (they went to university and then never left) so it's high school drama all of the time.
In my friends' case, he didn't really want a little fiefdom or even to be a manager.
The problem was that they made it clear that the only way to get promoted and move up the salary ladder was to become a manager of a team. So by converting his one-person role into a job that had to be done by several people, he could justify hiring a team underneath him and therefore getting a significant raise and better title.
It's weird to hear them describe how everyone seemingly knows the game is broken, but they're open about how it needs to be played.