Managers Are Constantly Justifying Their Job
"If someone’s job is taking orders from one person and giving them to someone else, that is not a job, that is a conveyer belt, and they should be fired."
If you’re a peon or rank-and-file employee at a company, you can be drilled out of the company for virtually anything. You’re constantly in a mad scramble to justify your value or worth, especially if revenue erodes across 2–3 quarters and someone has their hand on the Layoff Kill Switch. (That’s the same moment when “authenticity” seeks to be valuable …
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