re: That Woke Mental Illness Seems to Have Invaded a Site I Belonged to For Years

Mike, the "title" thing gets to many folks' heads.  When I started at the steel mill, it had only been opened for just under two years but was already on their third plant manager.  He was a young kid, turned 24 a few months after I started (they wouldn't pay proper manager wages to a qualified manager) and he liked to throw his weight around.  This was quickly defused when he would come around huffing and puffing, I would ask his opinion on something technical, way over his head and he would have suggestions consistently to the contrary of common sense.  I would often follow up in an email confirming the direction of the (wrong) course of action for the sake of record keeping.  I never followed his suggestions as it would put the line down killing overtime for those working in the trenches.  That would be doing them a true disservice as overtime is the only place money was to be made as line workers were only paid squat.