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I didn't go into management because I didn't think circumstances were stable enough. I did see four co-workers go up the ladder, with disastrous results. Two of them I tried to warn, the other two would have been a waste of time to warn. By the time I retired, two had been fired, one drank himself into a coma, then passed away. The fourth is still working, but became so hated, the company keeps moving him to different posts. All four of these cases were promoted by management personnel who were "people persons", but were terrible decision makers.

There's an old saying, "Ain't nothing to it, if you're born to it." I know it's too simplistic, but it's based on a lot of reality.

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hmokiguess 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Damn this sounds like an extremely unhealthy environment in general.

I experienced burnout before but dying because of work sounds very extreme.

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idontwantthis 29 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

"I had a friend who went into management. He died!" "Dad, are all of your friends dead?"

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dfxm12 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

OP makes some big assumptions that is was because of work and not many reasons (even if work was one of them).

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hmokiguess 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah that’s what I was thinking, if he is sure that work was the main driver then it sure must be horrible. That said, I trusted them since I am out of the loop.

	▲	goodmythical an hour ago \| parent [-]
		We don't have enough information to know whether or not OP is making assumptions, and therefore would be wrong to assume so. OP could have been friends with or a friend of a friend or could have hardly met the coworker. We don't know.