I think the root of the managerial problem is this: everyone who becomes a manager came from somewhere else. That is, they actively decided to move up the ranks from worker to manager. This implies that they want to continue to ascend. Drawing conclusions, if your manager is any good HE OR SHE WILL BE PROMOTED. And he or she will take the promotion, saddling you with a new manager, one who is either moving up-- ie, has no experience and will have to learn the job from whole cloth-- or is moving laterally from within or outside the organization, implying incompetence. There are exceptions, of course. But many, many managers fall prey to the old "promotion to the level of incompetence" rule. They move up until they're dumb, and then they sit, FUCKING WITH YOUR SHIT.

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