Manager - A Load Balancer, a Middleman, or an Unskilled Boomer

Manger: A Load Balancer, a middleman or a unskilled boomer

Sometimes, I sit back and wonder: how do people call themselves managers? These are individuals managing four grown-up Gen Z professionals who, on their own, juggle career, life, love stories, and wanderlust—all while delivering on their work. And yet, these so-called managers, often Boomers, walk around taking pride in a job that requires the bare minimum of skills and intelligence.

It’s laughable. Truly.

A manager’s role seems so compelling to them that they refuse to upskill or evolve. It reminds me of something someone once told me: “You’ll realize the essence of managers when you’re stuck with a bad one.” They were right. You meet a bad manager, and suddenly their position doesn’t just seem unnecessary—it becomes a burden.

Gaslighting as Management

The ego boost these people get from “suggesting” changes to things you’ve built from scratch is mind-blowing. Picture this: you’re in a meeting. Your manager is asking for updates:

• Was this task completed?
• Have you updated Jira?
• What’s the ETA on X?

Meanwhile, you’re sitting there, mentally screaming: “Mate, the project is tanking, the team is burned out, and you’re here gaslighting us with this nonsense?!”

If X is doing frontend, Y is handling design, and Z is working on the backend, my burning question is: What are you doing?

My left brain : “He’s managing all of you.”
My right brain: “If he was good at managing, why are we having this panic meeting? If he’d done his job, wouldn’t we be celebrating the project’s completion right now?”

Left brain: “This is everyone’s fault.”
Right brain: “Then why are we the only ones being interrogated?”

The Biggest Sin of Leadership

The worst thing a so-called leader can do is this:

• Use “I” during praise and appreciation.
• Use “We” during loss and failure.

When things go south, these managers shift the blame with a pathetic “We messed up.” You little twat: “We” didn’t screw up—“You” did. Take some damn responsibility.

A leader with no ownership is no leader at all. They’re just a glorified load balancer, shuffling tasks and creating chaos.

Load Balancer in Action

Scenario 1:

• Idiot CEO: “Can we have a quick meeting? There’s an urgent task for this sprint.”
• Manager to the rescue: “Yes, sir! Let’s pull Y onto this. We’ll ask the team to work on Saturday and order them pizzas as a treat!”

Outcome:
Y has no idea what the task entails, so we waste time educating them. Congratulations, instead of wasting 3 sprint points, we’re now burning 6. And oh, Sunday is a working day too.

Scenario 2:

• Idiot CEO: “People aren’t coming to the office on time. What should we do?”
• Manager to the rescue: “Let’s make it mandatory for everyone to arrive on time!”

Outcome:
People show up on time, only to gossip and waste hours until they feel “compelled” to work. Productivity? Dead. Soon, they start coming late again because the only rule enforced was the in-time, not the out-time. And guess what? You can’t do anything about it because, well, you’re just a manager with no real skills.

The Real Problem

A person with no skills has no moral authority to manage. They can only manage clones of themselves—mediocre replicas with slightly less experience. Anyone smarter than them either:

1. Becomes their boss.
2. Leaves.

There’s no in-between, and I’ll sign my name on that statement.

If a manager somehow encounters someone who can see through their bullshit, that person will either:

• Leave.
• Outgrow them.
• Become a threat.

If you are still thinking of becoming a manger in your life, help this soceity by taking an early retirement because managing is not a skill, it is a task. A robot can also perform task and you are a human not a bot.