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Uneducated IT Managers, and How to Deal?
R.Mason asks: "I work in an IT department for a small to medium sized family owned business. The job is great, except for our boss. He simply doesn't know nearly as much as he should. Our team finds ourselves teaching him or explaining remedial things far too often. Even when his own computer is acting up, he doesn't know what to do with it and has us fix it while he sits and watches. He spends hours and hours on the most insignificant tasks as if he has nothing better to do. Is it ignorant to believe an IT manager should be a knowledgeable in technology as a whole? A person you respect and frequently learn from? It creates an extremely frustrating work environment, and our team doesn't know how to approach the problem. It's becoming too much to simply "put up with it." What advice do those of you in the IT field have for this issue?"
We get this topic every now and then.
A few years ago it was a rant and attack how dumb managers and supervisors were.
Now we get posts asking and explaining what managers should be doing, and why actual skill in the task of the workers isn't as important as one might think.
Anyone want to take bets on how long till slashdot argues that a MBA is valuable, and CEO's are underpaid?