Wagner's MBA Laws of Working for an Incompetent Manager

Wagner's MBA Laws of Working for an Incompetent Manager: 1. Your incompetent manager knows they are incompetent and will try to use you to look good to their manager; 2. Your incompetent manager will push blame for failures in the department to you whenever possible because they have too few successes to balance; 3. Your incompetent manager will ultimately try to include you in their paranoid delusions of everybody being against them (of course, everybody is against them because they are incompetent!); 4. Trying to help your incompetent manager is impossible (nobody is that good, not even you, so don't think you're going to tough this out), like skydiving without a parachute: a fast ride down with an unpleasant final consequence; 5. Nobody wants to work for an incompetent manager, so your peers will leave in droves; 6. Your incompetent manager will mess up your performance evaluations (remember, they're incompetent!) and thus your career; 7. Your incompetent manager will try to ruin your reputation with their peers and other potential employers; 8. Your incompetent manager can't help you become better at your job, only worse!