[smackeyacky]

It’s important for a technical manager to be able to effectively advocate for their programmers. Otherwise you just get constantly railroaded by the high priests of sysadmin or devops into technical decisions that make no sense.

My manager is not technical. The work environment is shit. Just a constant stream of brotherhood decisions that don’t work you are supposed to deliver systems into. The whole thing is bloody stupid but if our manager had a clue it wouldn’t happen. Before you ask, yes we try but the stupid bugger can’t stick to a script despite how easy we make it because the other managers constantly pull him into the suck of what suits everybody else rather than what works.

I hate the bastard.