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Slave Famous
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"It holds that in a hierarchy, members are promoted so long as they work competently. Sooner or later they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (their "level of incompetence"), and there they remain, being unable to earn further promotions. Peter's Corollary states that "in time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out his duties" and adds that "work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence"."


How many of you see this in your workplace ?

I see it in sports all the time

5/12/2009 9:01:06 AM

quagmire02
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my boss at my last job was like that

which is specifically why i left, and why i made it clear to both my department head and one of the higher-ups that he should be fired because he was too stupid to be telling me what to do

5/12/2009 9:06:27 AM

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"The Dilbert Principle is a variation of the Peter Principle. The Peter Principle addresses the practice of hierarchical organizations (such as corporations and government agencies) to use promotions as a way to obtain greater advantage from employees who demonstrate competence in their current position. It goes on to state that, due to this practice, a competent employee will eventually be promoted to, and remain at, a position at which he or she is incompetent. The Dilbert Principle, on the other hand, claims that incompetent employees are intentionally promoted to prevent them from doing harm (such as reducing product quality, offending customers, offending employees, etc.) The Dilbert Principle draws upon the idea that in certain situations, the upper echelons of an organization can have little relevance to the actual production and the majority of real, productive work in a company is done by people lower in the power ladder. It is possible for both Principles to be simultaneously active in a single organization."

5/12/2009 9:06:37 AM

amac884
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ThePeter

5/12/2009 9:49:18 AM

FykalJpn
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ThePrinciple

5/12/2009 9:53:49 AM

jetskipro
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"my boss at my last job was like that"


He eventually got fired. Too bad it had to be 2 weeks AFTER I found out I got into NCSU for grad school.

5/12/2009 12:20:03 PM

amac884
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The

5/12/2009 12:21:45 PM

Sayer
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My company is like this.

Verbatim.

5/12/2009 12:22:30 PM

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