Managers who are brought into a company as a Manager who never actually train to do the job of the other people who they manage
Does that make sense? The guy who comes in to tell you how to do your job but has never done your job, so you end up not only showing them how to do your job but covering them when they can't do their job either.
( The only Dave is pushing things forward, Thu 27 May 2010, 13:15, 2 replies)

we had one of these
Manager of a DTP team... didn't know ANY of the software.
She had to go on weeks-long courses to learn Quark, Photoshop and Illustrator, and even after that was utterly shit at them.

She used to spend her time coming up with more and more wacky ways for us to 'improve productivity' whilst haveing no fucking clue what our jobs involved.

She got a big fat pay off after getting pregnant. She wanted to work from home, they said quite reasonably, you can't manage a team from home. So she threatened to sue, and got paid off.
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Thu 27 May 2010, 15:55, closed)

Mmmmmmmm
...big fat payoff.
( The only Dave is pushing things forward, Fri 28 May 2010, 12:19, closed)