[pyrale]

> You spend 40+ hours a week on you and your career. Your manager spends a small fraction of that directly on your career.

If your manager has little more leverage than you do, that's true. In many orgs, managers have considerably more leverage than their reports, and their help is mandatory to get some things (promotions, pay increase, access to conferences and trainings, changing teams, passing messages up the chain or laterally, support for escalation, etc).

The only trump card the report has is leaving, but they pay for that by losing all the social capital acquired at the current company.