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 But we digress.
-The basic job of [[line manager|line management]] is to supervise direct reports. Employees all have things to do ''besides'' supervising their direct reports, though a given worker’s proportion of line management to other stuff depends on that employee’s seniority. But the peril of supervising depends an awful lot on who you are supervising: with a novice employee, you can feel the same terror [[Grandma Gontrarian]] did when teaching the young [[JC]] to drive: right leg braced and jammed in the floor-well where the brake would, God willing, be; right hand loosely gripping the hand-brake, ready to yank, left hand grasping the door-handle, ready to judo-roll to safety should the need arise as her as her young cretin bunny-hopped around the university carpark.  With an experienced and sensible hand, by contrast, line management is a dream; like sitting back with a cocktain under full spinnaker as a well drilled crew nimbly clambers about trimming sails. The theory is it should become more like riding a wing-foiling catamaran and less like being a driving instructor as seniority increases.
+The basic job of [[line manager|line management]] is to supervise direct reports. Employees all have things to do ''besides'' supervising their direct reports, though a given worker’s proportion of line management to other stuff depends on that employee’s seniority. But the peril of supervising depends an awful lot on who you are supervising: with a novice employee, you can feel the same terror [[Grandma Contrarian]] did when teaching the young [[JC]] to drive: right leg braced and jammed in the floor-well where the brake would, God willing, be; right hand loosely gripping the hand-brake, ready to yank, left hand grasping the door-handle, ready to judo-roll to safety should the need arise as her as her young cretin bunny-hopped around the university carpark.
-Roles change in three key ways the higher up the multi-level marketing scheme you go:
+With an experienced hand, by contrast, line management is a ''dream''; like sitting back with a cocktail under full spinnaker as a well drilled crew of professional yacht racers nimbly clamber about trimming sails. The theory is it should become more like the latter and the former as seniority increases.
-'''You get paid more''': The more senior you are, the more lolly you take home. This news should not rock anyone’s world. Nor that the rate of increase in lolly is not linear, but exponential.
+For that reason, roles change the higher up the multi-level marketing scheme you go:
+'''You get paid more''': The more senior you are, the more lolly you take home. This news should not rock anyone’s world. Nor should it that the rate of increase in lolly is not linear, but exponential.
 '''There are fewer of you''': This stands to reason: there are lots of [[fungible]] Belarusian minions at the bottom taking home 30,000 rubles a year for carting around huge hunks of stone, occasionally getting squished, but — hey, hose down the rockface and get a new one. Only one [[Hank]], flitting around the world in a corporate jet and speaking at Davos, but he takes home twenty-five mill. When you multiply take-home comp by rank title, it looks a bit like the snake who ate the elephant in ''Le Petit Prince''.