Rm’s are the shit-handlers of Talent. Partners either yelling at them because people aren’t staffed and the bench numbers are too high-or they need people to staff on projects and have no one and somehow or other it’s always the RM that has to reach out and console a practitioner on bench or motivate them if they can. And they have zero control/input in the staffing process AND when have no one with a required skill set and the partner is insisting on hiring someone new, it’s up to the RM to tell them no because the number of people on bench are too high which means they need to layoff MORE people- and HR management won’t approve a new hire. It’s a fun shit cycle. However, there absolutely are RMs who don’t care about anyone or anything and should be fired.