Hating on your boss is kind of a national pastime, especially if they're the kind of

of middle manager that doesn't have much power, but really wants it.

In pop culture, bosses are often betrayed as out of touch,

not very good at their jobs, and just cringe.

Like Michael Scott from the office.

People say, I am the best boss.

They go, God, we've never worked in a place like this before.

You're hilarious.

And you get the best out of us.

Or there's suck-ups, like Successions Tom Wamskans.

So, yeah, as a manager, I think know I'm simple you know I squeeze the costs and

juice of revenue follow the boss you know I digest strategy and implement

or they're exceptionally passive you know I digest strategy and implement.

Or they're exceptionally passive aggressive,

like Bill Lumburg, the boss from the movie office space.

We have sort of a problem here.

Yeah, you apparently didn't put one of the new cover sheets on your TPS reports?

Oh, yeah, I'm sorry about that.

I forgot.

Mm, yeah. But what if middle managers just went away?

That's exactly what one company is trying to do.

Bear, the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical firm best known for making aspirin, is getting rid of a huge percentage of its managers.

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