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Well, if your model of company behavior is the Gervais principle (imho a great model) aren't you conceding that it's not a meritocracy? >>> I'm not even sure w

Well, if your model of company behavior is the Gervais principle (imho a great model) aren't you conceding that it's not a meritocracy? >>> I'm not even sure what you mean by this. How would a promotion reflect poorly on someone? For a real life example, I have a friend, let's call him Justin, who's an incredibly efficient engineer, and this is known. But he won't get promoted because of a few obnoxious traits (outed as a Trump supporter, got drunk at the office a few times, liked to place bets on video games at the office). I don't think his manager will promote him, because he worries if he promotes Justin, then Justin gets fallover drunk and has to be fired, then somehow it'll look like a mistake to have promoted him in the first place... Super-political (i.e. concerned with appearance over reality)

jdmichal 9y ago
Oh, we're in complete agreement about meritocracy. I call it a fairy tale engineers like to comfort themselves with [0,1]. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough about where I agreed with you. And rereading your original post, I might have misread it a bit, and I think we are very much in line. And thanks for the story. Manager definitely sounds like a clueless / regulator type for worrying about such things. While at the same time, "Justin" hasn't done a very good job of making himself trustworthy. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10978841#10980628 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10978841#10980628 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14169245#14169748 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14169245#14169748