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It is the Peter Principle in action. There are too few supervisors who understand their job is to enable those subordinate to them to do their jobs! A good supervisor gets his/her people the tools, training, information they need so they can do their jobs better. They should be decent at task analysis and be damned good teachers.
Seems too many are insecure because they got their position not on merit but by longevity and/or political maneuvers. They operated from a position of knowing they are not really capable and it tends to make them poor teachers, fail at getting their people what they need to get the job done and they love to undermine the confidence of anyone who is really talented. The last thing they want is for someone to do a really good job (unless they can take all the credit them self) and raise the bar for how things are judged.
Sorry you are having to deal with it, DEMMAN, but it will make you a tougher SOB for the idiots to deal with. :evilgrin:
When it gets bad, stop, breath and ask if such and such is really gonna matter in 10 years, 5 years, 1 year. You can whittle down the looming frustration a bit that way. Keep focused on what will matter.
Strength to ya, pal.
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