Yuck-what a depressing thread. It reminds me of the bad old days when I had a boss. I marked little or no initiative. Burn out doesn't factor in my experience. You have to shine before you can burn.
I've come to the conclusion that management in general is a stop gap between people who actually work for a living and executive levels. Executives place a drone in management to leech, squander, lie, worm, wiggle, and suck their way through a career while draining any subordinate of the will to go on. They take bright ideas and make them their own while they effectively screen and filter underlings from executives who don't want the rest of the company to know how easy their job is and how replaceable they also are. That requires a special kind of dim-wit who will nod and say yes no matter what the exec has said, which often times leads to the inevitable sacrificial goat phase of middle a manager's career. "Well Smith, seems you authorized this ...blah blah.......security will meet you at your office. Bring a box." Not to worry though. He can easily rotate into another vacancy, at another company, somewhere between the VPs office and the janitor's closet. As long as he keeps using chapstick he is welcome. This is the only phase of an underling's pathetic career that bring any reward. That, however, is short lived as that jetsam will shortly be cloned and his position will be filled by an equally unenlightend fool as described above.
Why do you think there are so many incompetant managers out there? That is not by accident. This is a corporate strategy.Companies are not about making money anymore-they're about making
someone within that company money.
Little wonder I'm my own boss.
