And then there's the inverse stupid bureaucracy: I manage a team, but not on paper, because making me a manager would involve a significant salary reduction.
Every big company has a large and powerful Business Prevention Department! On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 9:08 AM, Tom Marchant < [email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 19 Aug 2017 15:15:05 +0000, scott Ford wrote: > > >What about having PC managers who don't understand z/OS or z/OS ppl? > > One of the best managers I ever had was a PC weenie who knew > nothing about mainframes. He knew how to manage. He never tried > to make technical decisions because he knew that his people were > qualified to do that. He believed that the most important thing for > him to do was to keep the corporate bureaucracy out of our way > so that we could do our jobs. He enabled us to do our best work. > > One of the worst managers was a highly competent technical person > who seemed to think that he needed to second guess everything > that we did. He didn't have the temperament to be a manager and > should have remained in a technical position, but he accepted the > change because idiotic bureaucracy couldn't give him a raise without > making him a manager. > > -- > Tom Marchant > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
