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Dear Good Job,

About six months ago, our company did a reorg that resulted in several of my close coworkers getting laid off, including my manager. I got to keep my job, and I got a new manager, “Ryan,” who was fairly new to the company and who I had not previously worked with.

Well, it’s become increasingly clear to me that Ryan is just a total fraud.

He is completely checked out and does no work. Our company has mandatory weekly 1:1s between managers and their direct reports, and my ones with him are a joke. He waits for me to tell him what I’m doing, I tell him, and then he’s like OK sounds great, keep it up, and the meeting i

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