[MagicMoonlight]

Well from my perspective there are five different people above me, and all of the work in the project is done by me. I talk to the customer, I design and build, I manage the Jira. They don’t actually do anything. They just exist and cause drama.

They could sack all of those people and give me a payrise and be hundreds of thousands better off.

I wish I could say it’s just this project, but it’s a real theme at this point. There are so many layers of fake jobs in every organisation.

[simplyluke]

Management bloat is definitely a thing in many companies, but there's a right level. Some number of C-level execs seem to think AI magically means the optimal structure of any company is an unlimited number of thousands of individual contributors directly under a CEO.

The thought that AI doesn't mean mass layoffs is basically unimaginable.