This is such a defeatist attitude. We're arguing two different things too.
We're not saying you have to personally know 500k people. We're saying that to some people, it's very clear and obvious that someone working for them is incompetent and/or simply doing a bad job (and this is not gut feel). This shouldn't be up for debate or controversy. If you hired that person to manage another person, you expect them to know what they're doing and at the very least see the Red Flags of incompetence (whatever they may be). We've been trying the "systemic" way of ridding ourselves of bias, but here it is, alive and well. What we got instead is a broken system that's full of conflicting priorities and people trying their best to navigate them and doing so badly - all whilst the actual goals and priorities get sidelined as secondary.
We're not saying you have to personally know 500k people. We're saying that to some people, it's very clear and obvious that someone working for them is incompetent and/or simply doing a bad job (and this is not gut feel). This shouldn't be up for debate or controversy. If you hired that person to manage another person, you expect them to know what they're doing and at the very least see the Red Flags of incompetence (whatever they may be). We've been trying the "systemic" way of ridding ourselves of bias, but here it is, alive and well. What we got instead is a broken system that's full of conflicting priorities and people trying their best to navigate them and doing so badly - all whilst the actual goals and priorities get sidelined as secondary.