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The irony of Peter Cooper advocating the Peter Principle is not lost on me.
by famfam 16y ago
The irony of Peter Cooper advocating the Peter Principle is not lost on me.
- gruseom 16y agoFunny, but not as funny as if it were true. PP is when you're competent and get promoted to something you suck at; Peter's suggestion is the other way around. Sorry to nitpick.
- btilly 16y agoBut isn't it true? If someone is succeeding as a programmer, that says nothing about how they'll do as a manager. Therefore pushing for that promotion is a good way to wind up getting promoted to something you such at. Which is the Peter Principle at work.
- chc 16y agoBut the OP's contention is that he isn't a very good programmer, while some of the qualities he says he has sound like they'd be good for somebody in an oversight role.
- gruseom 16y agoAre we failing on ambiguity here? If by "it" you mean "the peter principle", then yes I think it's very true. But here, by assumption, the programmer is not competent (I doubt this is so, but that was the context) and petercooper's suggestion -- a good one -- was to consider getting promoted into a perhaps more suitable position. That's the inverse of PP.