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The Gervais Principle is a great read for fans of The Office and/or people who work at large companies. Nice to see it get a shout out. https://www.ribbonfarm.
by mr_cyborg 6y ago
The Gervais Principle is a great read for fans of The Office and/or people who work at large companies. Nice to see it get a shout out.
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/ https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
- perrygeo 6y agoThis. The OP is effectively a re-wording of the Gervais principal - same idea with slightly less words in blog form. It's a bit ingenious to claim a whole new theory.
- midasuni 6y agoDid you mean ingenious or ingenuous?
- whoisburbansky 6y agoDisingenuous would make more sense in the context of GP’s comment, but I too have a hard time seeing how ingenious works here.
- the_gipsy 6y agoI had the same impression, but I _did_ find the translation to these three "social ladders" worthwhile.
- creddit 6y agoHis theory is new because it's applied to Class. It's far worse because it is poorly fleshed out.
- tlarkworthy 6y agoBeware, it makes you aware. I can't take a power structure seriously anymore, which, weirdly, made me very promotable as the principle foretold.
- superiorflush 6y agoDon't read Marx, then. It would wreck you.