LogFAQs > #886512966

At the Walmart I used to work at, there was this one guy who was poised to become manager even though he was unlikable, not inclined to take responsibility for his own actions, and made just as many mistakes, if not more so, than the rest of us. Instead of trying to communicate clearly, he just went "YOU HEARD ME" when I asked him to repeat something and refused to communicate anymore. To this day, I still don't know what he was trying to tell me from halfway across the storage area.

He was favored by the managers and he could do no wrong to them.

Meanwhile, the guy who was trying to get a college degree but was constantly getting screwed over by Walmart scheduling work during his tests (and refused to give him the day off because "they were going to be busy and needed him") and didn't make as many mistakes as the aforementioned guy was hated by the managers and constantly picked on for everything that went wrong.

And being Walmart, things just go wrong as a matter of course because the whole thing is a mess and people think that just having a computer manage everything is an intelligent idea.

I've met good, smart managers before, at least on the customer side of things. Most of them didn't last long and got replaced by unlikable, haughty persons.

So no, I'm not inclined to believe that managers are usually more intelligent than workers. If anything, I think intelligence is usually an anti-requirement for the position.
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