Ah the long days in IT

I see this all the time in IT

On the one hand, I see almost all the time people in authority over me. They got there however and for what ever reason, and as such, it's my job to execute on their orders to the best of my ability and as honestly as possible.

On the the other hand, when one sees so many really bad decisions made by the same group as above, one has to question if they're the right people who should be in charge.

This is not to say I should be running things - that's not what I'm saying at all. For one thing, because I'm not in management, I'm not wired or connected with all the other managers and management at large. So I'll never be privy to all the future plans, rumblings, challenges.

But .. in order to prevent stupid decisions from being made nevertheless, I still have to stay a few steps ahead of the front-line managers (which itself is a very condescending term, as it reinforces to everyone else how low on the totem pole we really are).

But after awhile, one gets sick of seeing so many bad decisions being made such that people like me are forced to clean up the messes of a failed 'effort', while the management above is allowed to revel in the success of the same 'effort'.

With that kind of rot, it does make me wonder how as a leader how would I ever get to really know what people under me are really thinking, as if there are so many layers of shitty people in between to gum up the works such that one would never get an honest reckoning, and even then, it'd require a great deal of understanding in order to get to their reality.