Have you ever worked for someone who was incompetent, and way over their heads? My last job I worked for a nice guy. I had known him for years.
But he was in so far over his head that it was sad. He floundered and ranted and every day in our morning meetings he would tell us to “work harder.”
In the end, one day he was just gone. His career was over at 47. The million dollar home he was building was sold, unfinished. And he went to work for a non profit.
But, in the three years since he was gone, the organization is just now coming out of the mess created by him. (The pandemic did not help...)
And...people liked this guy. Imagine the absolute nightmare working for an incompetent, over their head, AND nasty idiot?
For many years I had worked for a state government. I watched one incompetent 20-something political appointee after another rise to instant administrative power. Almost always they were in way over their heads and convinced they got their position based on skill and merit.
Worse, they were typically deliriously intoxicated with their sudden responsibility over others. You had to handle them with kid gloves and ever so gently guide them through their inexperience and incompetence. And to be brutally honest, the women appointees were almost always the most prickly and the worst to deal with. So glad that’s long gone.