[growlist]

One thing that amuses me - you can provide the very simplest tools (such as an issue tracker report) and some managers will still utterly refuse to use them, to the point of open hostility, because it somehow undermines their position to open a link and read an online report as opposed to asking a subordinate to read it to them instead ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[sanderjd]

Yep, my biggest frustration is when people (not just managers) ask questions instead of looking things up. And it can be hard to push back against because they are "just trying to get the answer more efficiently by just asking". Which is true, it's usually more efficient to ask someone who knows something than to find something yourself. The problem is that it preempts work to be done in serial instead of doing a bit more work in parallel. There is a point at which that makes sense, there are things people know that require a lot of legwork for someone else to find out for themselves. But "what are you working on" is pretty much never in that category.

[otaviokz]

Unfortunately there's always people living in the 1800s...

[growlist]

True. The enterprise sometimes keeps going in spite of its leaders...