Comment by AngryData

My utopian ideal is that management skills are by themselves considered completely useless, and that management skills should be considered add-on skills to add onto an already useful base set of skills and experiences.

There is only one kind of person that I look down upon life, its MBAs with no other qualifications. I would consider a medieval dung hauler a more skilled and important member of modern society than a modern MBA-only holder. I just don't see how anyone can get such a degree and see their skills as valuable, but they all like to build each other up off of everyone else's backs and somehow it works.

Ive never had a good manager that wasn't just another worker in the trenches for a decade or more beforehand.