I work in a corporation. My manager told me to come up with a solution to a problem that was... pretty much unspecified. He told me to optimize certain process, but without any details on what this actually means. Like, what metric are we optimizing. Whenever I tried to suggest something, he kept pushing back, trying to convince me to do things his way. The thing is, it remained unclear what "his way" really was, because he kept being as vague as possible. Once I told him straight-up>look, nobody in the team understands what you want from this project, and everything you said so far directly conflicts with what other managers sayand he replied>kliterally. After one year of meetings we're slowly reaching the conclusion that I'd like to do a small revolution to facilitate the future growth of the company, while he'd like to keep things unchanged. It's like, his goal from the beginning was to create a giant project that takes years and does literally nothing.He's not a manipulative type, but he'd wildly incompetent. Trying to reason with him has never worked. I'm really struggling to hold myself and not to tell him>my implementation will work because I'm not a complete moron like you
>>33742195And honestly, I really start to think that it's one of those situations where incompetence gets promoted because the less efficient the whole thing is, the more people get hired, which raises his status as a manager. If I make a sleek and efficient system that automates things, he won't be able to argue why he needs such a big workforce. Because the thing is, he never blamed me personally for why things move so slowly in general, even though he knows that I spend entire days just playing vidya. But I'm getting really frustrated, because I really wish I could use my creativity and problem-solving skills to, well, solve a problem, instead of just going from one useless meeting to another where the goal of the meeting is to schedule another meeting.Anyway, next week we have a meeting about this. I have two options:1. Pretend that everything is right, and simply go through the points.2. Grill him in front of the entire team, let out my frustration, and push hard to actually start working on the damn project so that it solves some problems
