Nothing pisses me off more than a manager that keeps demanding shit but when you ask for support they deny it from you. well guess what? two can play this game, bitch.

Idk, managers in general suck.

Good managers are good managers because they elicit loyalty from their subordinates because they provide the bare minimum of treating you with the respect of being a fellow human being.

It's the long con of manipulation.

Middle managers only serve as a buffer between upper management and the general labour so upper management has plausible deniability when the labour teams push back.