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Dr. Laurence J. Peter  

40Deuce 46M
4633 posts
11/24/2018 12:27 pm

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11/24/2018 2:31 pm

Dr. Laurence J. Peter


I've always wondered why every place I've worked has been horrible and dysfunctional , it turns out that a Canadian dude already wrote a book about this in 1968 .

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. In time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties . Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence .

This checks out 100% . Which is why companies have to execute massive layoffs ever few years . It's like a forest fire , ever so often you need to clear out the deadwood and start anew .

Sidenote it sounds like this Deadwood movie is finally happening . Not sure how I feel about that .

When people in a sufficiently large hierarchy are promoted because of their competence , the end result will tend to put everyone into a position for which they are not competent .

The cream will rise until it sours .

When Alice is competent in her position , she will be promoted to another position because of her competence . Alice may or may not be competent at that new position . If she is incompetent , then she will become ineligible for promotion and stay put ; she will be kept in that position indefinitely , even if there are other positions in the hierarchy which may suit her skills .

The workers who are competent will keep being promoted for as long as they are competent and there are open slots above ; they will be promoted out of the positions they are competent in but kept in the position they fail at . Since the only way to stay in a position below the top of the hierarchy indefinitely is to be incompetent , the hierarchy will eventually stabilize into an that is mostly incompetent .

This often results when the skills required to do a job well are very different from those required to manage people doing that job , from the military to education to sales . A classic example is a teacher being promoted into a principal - two jobs that require vastly different skill sets , yet the latter is one of the few obvious career paths for the former .

I jokingly suggested this weekend that the NCAA should start having collegiate MMA and several people thought that was a great idea . That's where we're at as a society .

I am generally attracted only to age appropriate ladies as you all remember from my horrified post when I found out how old Kate Upton was - which was stupid in retrospect because she's a model , why did I think she WASN'T in her 20s ? But I tell you this , that chick that plays Alicia on the Fear the Walking Dead is pretty cute .

As you all know I quit watching Walking Dead a few seasons back when it went all "Lost" on me but I did like Morgan so when I heard he was going over to "Fear" I checked it out and liked it . Except the season finale was lame . I liked the idea of them meeting up with the "prime" Walking Dead story and what might happened there and that's what they were setting up . But then in the last three minutes of the finale they were all like "nah , let's just stay here and not do that" . Talk about anti-climatic . Seriously , talk about it right now .

Sometimes I think I shouldn't criticize what I perceive to be bad writing because what have I ever written that was worth anything ? But then I remember this stuff is made for me (and everyone else) to criticize so it would be wrong if I didn't .

You know what's weird ? The Star Wars prequels came out and were horrible but no one stopped liking Star Wars . But now they're coming out with new movies , some of which are great and people are deciding they hate Star Wars . I guess because if you make a pile of shit like Attack of the Clones it's easy for people to just ignore it and still like Star Wars . But if you make a movie that people hate for no reason I can figure out like Last Jedi then people are forced to deal with it .

People are saying there"soooo many Star Wars movies now" because they made 4 movies in 4 years ? That seems fine to me . I'd like a Star Wars movie ever year . But now that's all on hold because everyone hated Solo so much even though it was a fine movie .

It is mildly annoying that they've been announcing Star Wars TV shows for more than a decade now and none of them have happened . Right now Disney claims to have at least 4 Star Wars TV shows in production . Are they all going to be on at the same time ? That does seem like a bit much .

They're going to make a prequel to Rogue One which is already a prequel of sorts .

They're going to do Star Wars Underworld which is during the Empire and is Space Sopranos .

They're going to do The Mandolorian which is after Jedi and is a Space Western I assume like Firely .

And then some kind of thing about Yoda maybe .

In case you were wondering here's the ranking of the Star Wars movies per Rotten Tomatoes -

Empire Strikes Backs
Star Wars/Force Awakens (ironic that they're tied since they're basically the same movie)
The Last Jedi (surprisingly high since it "killed the franchise" )
Rogue One
Return of the Jedi
Revenge of the Sith
Solo
Attack of the Clones
Phantom Menace

That's pretty close to the 40 rankings bu Solo is WAY better than Revenge of the Sith .

Sometimes fanbases are or appear to be , perennially complaining not just about minute details of the canon , but about everything . This sometimes relates to fake fannishness : some people just don't like a piece of fiction , yet insist on consuming it so they can complain .

A possible sign of an Unpleasable Fanbase is a Morton's Fork : if they complain about one thing and the people behind the franchise listen and change it , this leads to other parts of the fanbase complain about the change . This is because , in extremely large fandoms , different portions of the fandom complain about distinctly different things , so that any change (and in particularly bad cases , any lack of change) will inevitably anger someone .

Basically , this is about a fanbase which is so varied and divided in opinion that it's impossible to give everyone in it what they want .

While this has been a problem for any media with a sufficiently large fanbase (you simply cannot please all of the people all of the time) in the Internet Era it takes on a new dimension when even a small minority can make their opinions heard . It's enough to make an author want to give up .

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40Deuce 46M
5725 posts
11/24/2018 12:28 pm

In conclusion Han shot first

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ltrskr 75M

11/24/2018 12:51 pm

The Peter Principle! Promoted to ur level of incompetence!

However, in politics it has failed, they r all way above their level of incompetence!


classicalrebel4 68M
1755 posts
11/24/2018 1:54 pm

When I was in the army the qualifications for promotion was simple, demonstrated ability to do the job of the next higher pay grade, preferably by already doing it. As soon as you got promoted, you started training for your next promotion. Business should be like that.

Please don't let me be misunderstood.


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