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Comment by Aeolun | Hacker News Reader

This is such a pain in the ass. You’d think that just providing a better solution would make people happy, but noooo.

Do not encroach upon my power, you cretin! It doesn’t matter if the business dies because of my stupidity, as long as I go down captain of this ship!

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Just from the point of view of some manager: perhaps worked many years at a company with the ultimate goal of entering C-suite. Maybe gave up other good opportunities for this goal. In such situations it must suck a lot to see your power and influence wane. You might have made many sacrifices and then someone starts some projects that could ruin everything you worked so hard for.

Then learn to code.

Edit: It's a legitimate solution. I've survived 3 reorgs at my company because I could code. I read up on the new incoming system and became effective.

> You might have made many sacrifices and then someone starts some projects that could ruin everything you worked so hard for.

As annoying as that is, I kind of feel you should be above that. You have all right to be annoyed and skeptical, but not to sabotage the effort.

I think a lot of it is that managers aren't really the captain, or at least lack the same expectations. They are more a contracted operations manager who can hop in a lifeboat first or can get paid more steadily if the ship runs aground and therefore they are more needed to clean up the mess.

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