For some reason I never made the conceptual leap that management skills = people skills.

Apparently having manager in your job title automatically confers them, so I was told. I've toyed with the idea a few times, but I'm a born tech. Might as well let get the less gifted get promoted out of my face, so I can get on with the job. Besides some have intimated, that I have some them and us issues, not to mention having an unfortunate habit of telling it like it is, in ways that don't salvage their fragile egos...