Comment by transitory_pce

This is a phenomenon common to all low grade/incompetent dev managers: When a dev asks for a team change they view it as a slap in the face because it has happened to them so often in the past and they take it as a personal offence. The fact is they are lousy managers and usually incompetent and nobody wants to work in their team.

So they go on the offensive and try to manage the dev out before senior management realises that yet another dev doesn’t want to work with them.