bane

[sadkingbilly]

from a prof thread:
'I'm not a techie myself but have been working tech project manager contracts for a few years now'

this has been the bane of my long career.
bloody so called 'managers' without a clue how what they're trying to implement works.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

[d000hg]

Managers who don't know the technical side, or technical people pushed into management without any idea how to do it... which is worse?

[sadkingbilly]

the former

[malvolio]

the former

Have to agree. I've had too many conversations with people who can not and, worse, will not understand why what they want to do is either not possible, insecure or counter-productive.

[d000hg]

That sounds like the problem isn't that they don't understand the technical side, but they're not a good manager.
A good manager knows they don't understand the technical side and doesn't stick their nose in. Their job is to manage people and understand what those people tell them can or can't be done, and trust them.

[sadkingbilly]

That sounds like the problem isn't that they don't understand the technical side, but they're not a good manager.
A good manager knows they don't understand the technical side and doesn't stick their nose in. Their job is to manage people and understand what those people tell them can or can't be done, and trust them.

I must've been unlucky then, never met one of those.
quite the opposite, unfortunately.

[d000hg]

I must've been unlucky then, never met one of those.
quite the opposite, unfortunately.

So the common denominator in "every manager you ever had was terrible" is...

[malvolio]

So the common denominator in "every manager you ever had was terrible" is...

Not really. There's a huge number of people that think knowing about desktop Windows PCs or using the Mac universe qualifies them to talk about datacentre technologies, cloud computing and the whole professional IT environment. I've had to explain in detail to one such expert why he had to buy twice as many disk drives if he wanted a proper RAID solution for his office server, and why RAID5 is not a DR solution, it is at best part of a BCP one. Then again, I know of plenty of would be coders who can write apps for Android and think that qualifies them for commercial programming roles.

[sadkingbilly]

So the common denominator in "every manager you ever had was terrible" is...

that old one again, - get yourself a new scriptwriter you bible bashing twat!

[northernladuk]

So the common denominator in "every manager you ever had was terrible" is...

OP walked right in to that one