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How many of you have seen this truth proven time and time again?

There’s only one thing more mystifying than why a person completely undeserving of a managerial position gets one: how they manage to keep it for so long. Everyone knows that politics, connections and clever tactics can vault the most unworthy staffer into a supervisory role, especially in a bootlickocracy. But when that person, defying logic and gravity, fails to fall on his or her own sword, it is stark proof of the fact that justice doesn’t necessarily prevail in the office.

Posted by Owen at 2117 hrs
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1. In the technology industry… we refer to it as “The Dilbert Principle”.

   Posted by Nick on April 25, 2005 at 0830 hrs
   
   
   

2. This is a classic demonstration of the Peter Principle, which states that in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence.

   You proably know this, but the idea is that an employee will keep getting promoted as recognition for doing a good job; eventually the employee will get promoted to a position that he or she isn’t qualified for, and will stay there. The net result is that the higher levels of most organizations are filled by incompetent people—after all, how many people are ever demoted?

   The reason people don’t tend to fall on the sword is probably because they’re surrounded by people who, for the most part, aren’t any better qualified for the job at hand.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on April 25, 2005 at 1203 hrs
   
   
   

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