Lets see where this one goes...
It went to the Peter Principle
So I am starting to have nightmares about where I work. That's not funny. I shit myself a little today. not funny.
I am tired all the time.
still not funny...
Well then if I can't be funny, here is a lesson that I learned that has relevance in everyone's day to day life,
even though I had never heard of it:
The Peter principle. It deals with the ideas of devices having multiple uses. For instance, if your shoe would work as
a hat, then you would probably use your shoe as a hat. What a terrible example, fuck me. A better example is
if your shitty Honda will work as a racecar, why not use it as a race car? Of course, we all know that Honda's do
not make very good race cars or even good cars for that matter, but you only can see that because a honda has
been used at some point as a race car and it sucked. Now, in instances like the one described with the Honda,
once the Honda has been used as a racecar, it will suck and it will be demoted back to a virgin's transportation device
once again. Reference the above Honda\racecar\Honda analogy as a promotion\assessment\demotion.
As with the Honda being a decent car, take an everage person who is good at their job.
They are good at their job, so they get a promotion. Assumingly they are promoted because
they exhibited qualities befitting of a person who has the job that they did before the promotion. Theoretically,
that would imply that they would best serve their purpose in the position they currrently hold (without a promotion.) Keeping this in mind,
do you suppose that the person in question will perform equally well with his new position? Say an engineer is very good at his job,
and he designs very precise and intricate products with ease and happiness. Well, someone will see
that he is good at his job, then he will be promoted. Now, when managing a team of engineers,
he will be miserable because he does not posess any management qualities or desire to manage, rendering him useless and highly impotent in his new
position.
This is the process by which a human will automatically be promoted to a point where he is useless and miserable in his workplace. There are of course,
many flaws in the logic behind the promotion of someone who is good at their job. You may not want a management position, but it is most likely
the only way to obtain a raise after a certain number of years. You may not want to promote your best engineer,
but you need another manager to work along next to you, and you shure as shit don't want that guy to be a complete drooling retard like you, so you
promote the engineer anyways.
Say that after the engineer's promotion, he works hard and learns how to manage a team of individuals effectively to a point where he can get some sleep
at night. This process will take many years from his miserable life. Then he will be promoted again, possibly to manage larger project, or more people,
or more responsibilies. Again, rendering his skillset useless. And he will be a miserable wretch for the rest of his life climbing the ladder of
abuse and neglect, fueled only by the fear of losing his job. All the while he will never realize that the solution to attain happiness again is to fucking
quit and walk right out the fucking door and to go flip burgers at mccie d's where he will be good at something for the rest of his life.
If you want to know what the peter principle actually applies to, just wiki it, because I have no idea.
March 12th, 2009
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