I won't explain too much because my job is pretty niche and I don't want to get doxxed, but I've been promoted to "manager" recently. It's not the kind of manager you're probably thinking of like you'd see at fast food or retail places, I don't determine anyone's hours or pay or anything like that, but I am in charge of assigning work to the people under me and training new employees. The problem is I have to balance the work I do myself and the work I assign to other people. If I keep too much for myself then my bosses wonder why they keep the others around and they fire the peons and I get stuck with all the work. If I assign too much to the people below me then they wonder why I'm even around and I get put at risk of being fired. Obviously I want to keep my job because I have bills and shit but I also don't want to be the person who sits around all day and bosses the people who actually do the work around. I'm kind of just looking for advice.
I interact with a lot of different types managers in my line of work and all the good ones/least leech-y ones understand that the hierarchy is pointless. If I go to them with a problem they’ll approach it as a coworker looking to find a way to get the job done together with us (the workers out on site), rather than someone who just delegates to another person who delegates it another person who delegates it etc. or be that manager who just says ‘figure it out’ or ‘how does this affect the deadline’ then vanish into thin air unable to be reached.
Not to say that delegating is wrong, or that there are no times where you have to be tough, but shit rolls down hill and the most bloodsucking managers I’ve ever worked will gladly let us deal with that shit (because we have to) rather than stopping it and easing our workload a bit.
Personally, it is the difference between me telling a manager to their face to fuck off/suck my dick/whatever and me willing to always work with someone again