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It is very simple to turn a morsel of work into a mountain of
work.  All that you need do is to hand the work over to a
manager.

Managers are notorious for working hard, but they do not work
smart.

Managers are scatterbrained, chaotic thinkers unable to organized
an efficient attack on the work.

Managers are comfortable with pigsty working environments
characterized primarily by substandard or broken-down tools,
messiness everywhere, and atrocious ergonomics.

Managers will discuss trivialities to death thereby wasting precious
time.

Managers will revise and revise and revise finished work to death.
This in and of itself turns a morsel work into a mountain.

Managers will bring progress on work to a halt if every tiny bit
of information is not yet known.  They generally will not work
around such omissions.

Managers need productivity tools and meetings and seminars ad
infinitum, BUT what comes out of all of this is LOWER productivity
NOT higher productivity.

Managers will go on a tear eliminating the best workers.  Managers
have the authority to fire capable subordinates while
management workers have their ways to drive out their capable peers.
This is really one of the worst productivity destroying activities,
but the highest priority of the very paranoid managers is to
eliminate threatening elements.  Managers are not above prostitution
to get their way in this regard.

Managers lie and lie some more.  In the three+ decades of equal
rights for managers, no other group has contributed more to the
decline of the standards of verisimilitude and ethics than the
managers.  The result has been, of course, lower morale and lower
productivity overall, thus increasing the magnitude of work from
mere morsels to mountains.  (Case in point:  the very trivial
end-of-century computer problem.)

Males do not discuss sex much when left to themselves, but put
one single manager into the mix, even at the outer fringes of the
mix, and the social dynamics of the male group change such that
many energies get diverted to raunchiness and away from productivity.

All of the above is contributing to the loss of competitiveness
on the part of the United States.  This in turn is causing consumer
preferences to shift to foreign goods.  Since consumers will always
go with their first choice, even if their second choice is a close
second, the lion's share of economic rewards will flow to foreign
countries.  This is exactly what is being reflected in the shameful
trade deficit of the United States.