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Disaster management professionals faulted the way the two men ran FEMA during Katrina and wondered how that qualified Rhode for NASA.

For some reason, in business, the least qualified people become management and boss around those who are qualified.

In just about every job that I've had, my supervisor knew more about the job than the manager did, but that never seemed to stop the manager from pretending like he knew what was going on (which always made him/her look like a dumbass). This is no different really. Just another fool who doesn't know what's going on who is going to fark things up for those who know what the job involves and how to do it.

/Just started a new job, already started to make friends with the supervisor and the boss.
//I'm wanting to make the boss my best friend to get ahead in this company.

What did they do to get the management position? Is that something that would be done by a decent human being? That should answer your question. Also applies to politicians.

I have had managers who:

Became manager because their brother in law worked for the corporate office and had enough authority to get him a manager level job instead of having to start out on the bottom (this was by far, the worst boss I ever had).

The buddy system. Yeah, Jack may be a better canidate, but Gary and the boss are the best of friends, so guess who's getting the job.

Sucking up. Again, Jack is the better canidate for the job, but John is the owner's nephew's cousin.

The Impressive Resume that doesn't really say much. In my company (the one where this is my last weekend), my supervisor has been with the company for years and has only dealt with this department. Her boss has been here less time than I have been here (I've been here just over a year). He got hired on because he's been in corporate businesses his whole life and has 'big ideas' for my department. The problem is that the supervisor has told him over and over again that those big ideas of his are not compatible with this department (we're an emergency response service department. Our primary job is to do the emergency response calls. The jackass with 'big ideas' doesn't quite grasp the idea of 'emergency' and thinks those should be handled just like any other call, and to turn this into a call center. He's actually told us that putting a customer who calls complaining about his caretaker on hold to handle an emergency call is bad customer service and we should put that call on hold and handle what came in first. Now you know why I found another job).

Those tend to be the ones that I've ran into, I'm sure that there are others.

Great Janitor: Those tend to be the ones that I've ran into, I'm sure that there are others.

I've got you beat. I worked in a FEMA call center during Katrina.

And no matter what you think, it was worse than anyone on the outside can realize.

I've got you beat. I worked in a FEMA call center during Katrina.

And no matter what you think, it was worse than anyone on the outside can realize.



I'm sure you have an interesting story or two to share about that. If you can tell the story, I would be interesting in hearing about it.