r/howtonotgiveafuck 7d ago

Too many fucks

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u/lustycurvies 6d ago

The Corporate Rat Race is just absurd.

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u/DarwinianMonkey 6d ago

What I find absurd is the idea of promoting the best workers into management positions. Hear me out. You have a guy who loves his job, he's great at it and makes everyone around him better. Instead of just, you know, paying this guy more...he gets promoted into a job he's not qualified for and now he manages people that perform the task worse than he could. What's the point? I really dislike the fact that you have to move up instead of just getting more money for being better at your job.

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u/awkisopen 6d ago

The point is training those under you to be as good or better than you were.

Then you no longer have one good worker, you have a team of good workers.

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u/lamp_a 6d ago

This assumes that the qualities that make a "good" worker can be taught.

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u/jason_sterling 6d ago

It also assumes that being good at a job also equates to being good at teaching the job. Teaching and management are separate skillets, and they don't come automatically with being good at a job.

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u/Foreleg-woolens749 6d ago

The “those who can’t do, teach” crowd fails to understand this. Teaching IS a skill set!

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u/Turbulent-Good227 6d ago

Yep. My manager is one of the most talented people that I’ve ever met working in my field. She studied for years to get there, but she was promoted to manager without a single hour of training. She literally cannot give direction. If she wants to change something on a project, she takes it from us and does it herself.

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u/PussyFriedNachos 6d ago

This right fucking here. You can teach tech and make someone a superstar, but you can't teach work ethic.

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u/lamp_a 6d ago

Work ethic is one aspect. Suitability and passion for a skillset is another.