Agreed. I hate the notch. I run "Just Say No to Notch" from the App Store to avoid the problem entirely.

They basically did.

I one time had an actual answer for a question that nobody else had answered in 5 years... but because I didn't have enough ridiculous "reputation" I couldn't post it, so everyone else couldn't actually be helped. That's when I was done with SO.

> a question that nobody else had answered in 5 years... but because I didn't have enough ridiculous "reputation" I couldn't post it

This is frankly impossible. By default, anyone with an account can post an answer to a question (https://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/create-posts).

Question protection sets a barrier at 10 reputation, which you can get from a single upvote on an existing answer, or from five approved edits to existing questions or answers. Further, it would only be applied to questions that had already been answered repeatedly, specifically because the question was attracting redundant answers that weren't adding any more value.

Agreed and sadly I'm not surprised. There are a lot of bad managers out there. But there are a good amount of good ones too.

That's great. I wish there were more of us but I'm glad we still are out there doing the best for our people.

I always found it was. Because I cared more what my employees thought about me than my managers. I wouldn't change that, ever.

Yes I fought for raises. I fought for better ratings and promotions too. If they asked me to cut I would fight to not doing that.

My first loyalty is to my team, and it's been clear to me why I have not rising as high.

Don't assume everyone is like the worst person in your head.

And as a line level manager I don’t believe you are a “bad person”. Line level managers are “powerless”. You don’t control head count, budgets, company wide decisions to reduce staff etc

You've had bad luck. I get it. But good managers like myself exist.

It’s not “bad managers” - it’s “powerless managers”. If you are a line level manager, you don’t control budgets, company wide re-org decisions, or really anything that I care about - which is mainly “how much money do I get in exchange for my labor” and “do I need to come into an office?”. Those are all decisions above your head

I don't expect them to move the world for me. But I don't equate "powerless managers" with "useless managers". If they feel like they do what they can within their means, I'd say that's a good manager.

>really anything that I care about - which is mainly “how much money do I get in exchange for my labor”

That's fair. Though I didn't choose my domain for the reasons you work. So I cared more about managers who felt like they were empathetic and invested their time to help me succeed. Not whoever can have me climb the corporate ladder the fastest.

I think this is too harsh. Generally yes, but there are good people like myself who do care. Yes we are rare but we do exist and more than 'nobody'.

Really great advice. There are some managers out there like myself who do care about your career. It's one reason I got into management- to be different and better than other managers who never think about it.