Maybe you aren't that good of a manager if one of your employees had to point that out…

Sometimes I seriously doubt whether anyone who is appointed to become a manager at a job is actually qualified for the job position. I remember at one of my previous jobs where I used to think that one of the senior employees who worked in the same position as I knew much more than the manager. It got to a point where the boss had to ask this employee for help. This was unfair in my eyes, as one of those employees should have gotten the position instead of an outsider with a good resume that actually wasn't qualified to manage that kind of workload.

This story in u/AskManagers made me think of all those managers who are completely unqualified for their job, and in return they end up having everybody suffer from that. There are always employees that have been in the company for a while, and that would have been very good leaders to the team. Instead of the person that was actually appointed for the job, and that actually shouldn't have been. I always think "why". Why were they appointed for the job if they are completely incapable of performing it the right way? Do they have some kind of relation with somebody else in the company? Did they lie on their resume? I don't know what it is, but it makes me sick that the company would rather give the job position to an idiot like that instead of a senior employee who is actually qualified to do it.

Unfortunately, when we get a situation like this one where there is nothing left to do but accept the new manager, we just have to comply. Maybe a couple of months into the job, they will start to get the gist of how everything works and actually become capable leaders. In whichever case, there isn't much we can do about it other than complain to our coworkers. So it's better to just accept it. Luckily enough, they may even accept some constructive criticism that may expedite the process of them learning how to do the job they were hired to do.