I started following this subreddit right around it started to get hot and I really like all the posts about people shutting down their employers and making them beg. I live in a western European country so working conditions here are incredibly good but I will rant about my absolutely useless manager.
I work at a startup and It is actually like a family, I am good friends with many of my colleagues. My manager is a different story. This guy goes from meeting to meeting to feel important (There was a meme posted here couple days ago that said something like “Don't have anything to do? Have a meeting, feel important, point at things” which described my manager so well) and during the rare times when he is not in a meeting he plays around in our product (we are a tech/entertainment company). Now, trying the product and playing it is heavily encouraged but not when that is the only non-meeting related thing you do. I work in analytics and this guy also has absolutely 0 clue about analytics, he uses big words to sound smart but if its someone that has some idea about what he's talking they immedately understand that its complete bullshit. So imagine this guy going on meetings to “allign” on whatever and delegating tasks to people but god fucking forbids that he actually produces anything slightly valuable for the company.
Another problem is our CEO said, when people complained about low salaries, that as a startup they cannot compete with super big companies and have to attract talent in different ways. It is totally understandable and I do think that a chill environment is as important as the salary, except my manager probably makes like 70-80% more than what I do, which is quite low for my area of expertise, while producing absolutely 0 feature, insight or basically anything.
I have been applying to other jobs and told some of the colleagues that I'm close with and they were very supportive of it. There are other companies that are as chill and casual as my current one that offers more. I really hope I get an offer from one of them so I can actually call to his face what a fucking fraud he is. Most other people that he works or worked with also thinks same as I do, only the CEO seems to be finding him useful. My goal is to get this guy kicked out of the company as I leave for another job so at least my remaining friends here can have better time.