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So a manager prioritizing personal minor convenience (single individual) over productivity and comfort of the reports would be considered a charitable interpretation in MBA land? edit: removed "You" as the author is not part of the group that supports the behavior mentioned

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I guess you didn't read my whole comment. I'll quote the part that you didn't read:

> So I wouldn't push them to go back into the office; remote work is the right thing for the team overall.

By the way, I definitely don't have an MBA. I've written around a million lines of C++ over my career. So I understand what it's like to work as an IC. Have you managed?

I retract the "you" from the above statement the rest of it still stands. I have managed people and had run my own company but will not extrapolate my experience more generally as I am pretty introverted by nature which is not very representative.

If your comment is just saying "managers who do things to their own benefit, to the expense of their reports, are bad," then we're in agreement.

> And I understand that most of my reports spend most of their time doing that kind of work. So I wouldn't push them to go back into the office; remote work is the right thing for the team overall.

noted: edited the comment to reflect

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