Manager realizes that his best employees are getting charged with more workload while the normal ones get more of a free ride, which seems unfair: 'Eventually my best person quietly told me they felt "punished for being good at their job"'

Maybe you aren't that good of a manager if one of your employees had to point that out…Sometimes I seriously doubt whether anyone who is appointed to become a manager at a job is actually qualified for the job position. I remember at one of my previous jobs where I used to think that one of the senior employees who worked in the same position as I knew much more than the manager. It got to a point where the boss had to ask this employee for help. This was unfair in my eyes, as one of those employees should have gotten the position instead of an outsider with a good resume that actually wasn't qualified to manage that kind of workload.This story in u/AskManagers made me think of all those managers who are completely unqualified for their job, and in return they end up having everybody suffer from that. There are always employees that have been in the company for a while, and that would have been very good leaders to the team. Instead of the person that was actually appointed for the job, and that actually shouldn't have been. I always think "why". Why were they appointed for the job if they are completely incapable of performing it the right way? Do they have some kind of relation …