I ask because my bosses are fucking disasters to work with. They never know what they have in stock, they're so fucking slow to get anything done, they have no filing system whatsoever for important documents and they're so messy that they make my toilet bowl after Mexican night look like a plate clean enough to clean off of.
We get the most done when they're not there, and by we I mean me and three teenagers who are still in secondary school. We have to come in every morning and sort out their mess for minimum goddamn wage.
So yeah, my bosses suck. Are yours any different? Could they actually work a wage job?
"good at their job" :same-picture: "incompetent"
Serious note: There's this idea that people will be promoted until they get to a position that they aren't competent to handle.
When I had a "normal" job, all of my direct bosses had come up through the ranks. So they HAD spent time being a cashier, receiver, stocker, buyer, etc.
But when they got to the "Department Manager" job, shit started to go sideways. (99% certain could be blamed on the General Manager and Store Manager being some flavor of chud desperately trying to maintain the normal business hierarchy.) They'd suddenly forget all of the first hand experience they had doing the normal day to day jobs and start making really stupid demands that were completely brain dead.
The Peter Principle, I think it's called. True enough in my experience.