>someone has the bright idea to make you a manager. maybe present your own manager with a copy of "The Peter Principle" book? This seems like a literal example

>someone has the bright idea to make you a manager. maybe present your own manager with a copy of "The Peter Principle" book? This seems like a literal example of it. The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence": employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another.