I’m curious if you have read the beginning Cake book from Apress and what you thought of that…

While it is uncommon that the manager of a group of designers/developers wouldn’t know anything about the trade, it isn’t uncommon for someone in a management position in this field to be out of touch with the world which they are trying to manage. The world of the web is a fast paced world, and many people (for whatever reason) can’t keep up. That’s fine when, like your second manager, you recognize the fact that you haven’t been able to keep up. A good manager will recognize his/her assets and defer to those assets. The truly talented people who work on the web never stop trying to stay on top of things. They never stop trying to learn. Personally, I feel it is my duty to learn as much as I can, about as many things as I can (and fortunately I have a great job for this). That way, when it comes time to make a decision regarding a specific project, I can be in a position to make an educated decision about what I think is best for the project.

Anyhow, my point is that you likely did the right thing by not saying anything. Chances are pretty good that nothing would have happened, and you might have ended up in a very uncomfortable work environment.
Also, if you are a person who cares and works hard to be knowledgeable, than you can alleviate the burden of having a brain dead manager. I’m sure that was the case at your job!

Looking forward to hearing from you.

I know this particular entry is old, but it struck a chord with me. I think I may have told you a couple of years ago that I snagged a job as a student web designer at CP (I don’t want to name the exact department). I’ve been with them for 3 years now, and I recently switched jobs within the dept; some would say a colleague of mine stole me from my previous position because of my web design skills. Anyway, with my first job, I was working for a boss who clearly has no knowledge of web design, or graphic design, which is really dumbfounding since he is the manager of our group, and we are in charge of the website and print publications for our dept. For the 3 years I worked for him, I was conflicted about bringing this up to anyone. I didn’t want to be the cause of him losing his job, but he clearly doesn’t know what he’s doing. To paint a picture: one day he calls me into his office as he is working in Powerpoint, and asks how to send a black box behind some white text. Things are even worse when it comes to anything web related. He seems to latch on to buzz words he hears, but clearly has no concept of, and wants to implement them.

I guess now that I have left the job (and not complained to any superiors about my former boss’ lack of knowledge), I wonder if I should have ever said something, and how so? Honestly, I’ve been told he was put in the position of manager so he could overlook the group, but our Senior Designers were to be the ones to do hands-on tasks. As the manager, my former boss would just be in charge of delegating tasks and making sure things are running as they should.

Now, I am happy to say that I am working with a competent manager, who realizes and admits he does not have the knowledge I do about web design, but trusts me to get the job done.

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