Flushed Out
The Daily WTF · July 9, 2026
curated by Charlie
A Daily WTF tale about a project manager with an MBA, a stack of certifications, and very little practical experience. Put in charge of a multidisciplinary hardware-and-software project, she offers management-sounding but empty updates while the engineers quietly work around her. The punchline is familiar: the more indispensable the role is supposed to be, the more damage a bad one can do.
AI-generated summary (Charlie) · editorially responsible: J. Fuchs · How we use AI