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by Pet_Ant 605 days ago
> Your manager's job is to look out for what's best for the team, not to answer to a chain of command. This isn't the military.

No, your manager's job is to make their boss look good. This trickles up to making the CEO look good to the board and ultimately the investors/shareholders.
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ghusto 604 days ago
Depends if you work for a shit company or not.

From the comments here, I think some have only _ever_ worked for shit companies. Other kinds of places do exist!

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from-nibly 604 days ago
No that's just private equity, and public companies. Real companies, companies that sell stuff or services to others as the way they make money, have to deliver stuff to customers. The whole company has to answer to the customer.
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