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Why Engineers Hate Their Managers (and What to Do About It)

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85 points signa11 | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 16:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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aitchnyu ◴[25 Jun 25 05:53 UTC] No.44374000[source]▶
IME I blame Telephone(aka Chinese whispers) being the default communication between ICs and skip level manager. A skip level should address a team in writing instead of the manager vaguely mentioning things. Communications among a team should happen in a public channel instead of DMs.
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1. imbnwa ◴[25 Jun 25 15:50 UTC] No.44378665[source]▶
It is insane how little is written down, and written down well, in my limited experience in Enterprise, never mind thoroughgoing written communication