The manager you don't want throws you under the bus, over promises and demands crunch, takes the credit for your work. Equally sneaky, but selfish.
I understand what you mean, but this only creates a escalation problem. Everybody has to lie to get anything done. So, it is impossible to know if the decisions taken in the company are reasonable or not.
I guess that this behavior makes sense if everybody up the ladder are themselves lying.
> taking the bullet from execs
I guess that this is part of the same type of company. Where execs punish mistakes, like if mistakes were not part of your job. I have seen such companies driven by fear and the irony of it is that everybody is unhappy and mistakes are repeated again and again as the goal is just o hide them not to learn from it.
> The manager you don't want throws you under the bus, over promises and demands crunch, takes the credit for your work. Equally sneaky, but selfish.
I guess that this is the manager that ends being promoted to be an exec and creates a new cycle of unreason, pain and lack of productivity.
Old but relevant: https://www.dilbert.com/strip/1995-01-22
I left that job 2 years ago after ~8 months. Mentally fucked me up and it took a long time to recover from the ineptitude and incompetence in that company.
I looked at their glassdoor reviews and the same complaint and comments me & co-workers made when we left 2 years ago are still repeating with people who are joining and leaving today.
Never again going against my gut feeling.