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Brain dead CEO?! Tune in next week for more obvious news! 💀
Something about upper management just pushes people into being dicks. Maybe cause all they do is work? Even my grand-manager is quite blunt and out of touch. Guess that happens when all you do is micromanage others all day
The further up the ladder you go the more importance is placed on numbers and metrics. Every meeting and every mandatory training is either about leadership decisions or some kind of numbers, be it profit, efficiency, budget or accidents. As a team lead you can still see the individuals you work with, but past that with 100+ people under you, even their health and safety gets reduced to numbers on a sheet.
It gets so ingrained in your brain that its nearly impossible to forget once you reach a point high enough where the shackles loosen a bit.
That doesn't really excuse anyone from being an out of touch asshole though. You can still see people as people instead of numbers, it just takes more effort to do so.
I think its the opposite in that only dicks go into upper management