just curious about how you guys handle office politics when logic and data completely fail. I once had a manager who refused to cancel a failing $50k software contract just because he personally picked the vendor. showing him spreadsheets of our lost productivity just made him angry, and he kept blaming the team for “not adapting to the learning curve.” I eventually had to manipulate the situation and convince him that cancelling the tool would make him look like a “bold leader” who protects the team’s agility. I basically had to stroke his ego just to get a logical business decision made. It worked, but honestly it felt exhausting. what’s your best/worst story of dealing with irrational corporate logic? did you find a psychological trick to bypass their ego, or did you just give up and quit?
The boss in my place brought in some guy as head of marketing who he picked himself and thinks is the bee’s knees. We have a closed customer base who, once they purchase our products, will buy spares for the next 30 to 40 years. We don’t really need marketing at all.
He does nice graphs and charts (that we don’t need), chats in constant gibberish business-speak, and makes things look fancy. That’s it.
He has recently been moved into an overarching position in control of technical and engineering teams he knows nothing about and can’t manage properly, and the shit will hit the fan real soon.
I can’t wait.