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Competent people in corporation could show how uncompetent the rest of corporation is, so they are found and eliminated before they can do too much damage to ma

Competent people in corporation could show how uncompetent the rest of corporation is, so they are found and eliminated before they can do too much damage to management.

SillyUsername 3y ago
That last line isn't a joke. I've been on the receiving end of middle management because I've been able to fix things in the business that have always been broken but never got fixed until I worked on them. Management will claim it's their work, will give you just lip service, will not use your name higher up the hierarchy and will actively down play their own mistakes whilst blaming the rest of the department or developers (e.g. like building a project with wrong requirements they actually provided, then missing the deadlines because stakeholders demand changes). Where that has happened I quit and then they just go back to the status quo.
- ikekkdcjkfke 3y ago
  Hominids in suits
prmoustache 3y ago
They are not eliminated, they are assimilated. A company is like a chain, as strong as its weakest link. There is not much gain to have some links much stronger than the others. The famous "I've learnt my lesson" which means you really reached the same low level of incompetence as everyone but secretly thinking you are more competent than all the others. The funny thing is that among all those incompetent peoples / idiots mentionned there are probably smart people who just learnt their lesson years/months and adjusted to the weakest links in the chain.
- yetihehe 3y ago
  They are "dealt with". One way or another, competent people are stopped from being a problem for management, either by being eliminated (fired), or tempered down (not assimilated, more like "converted") so they are no longer competent, but that's a small difference for me.
osmsucks 3y ago
This is called the Tall Poppy Syndrome.

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Competent people in corporation could show how uncompetent the rest of corporation is, so they are found and eliminated before they can do too much damage to ma

by yetihehe 3y ago

Competent people in corporation could show how uncompetent the rest of corporation is, so they are found and eliminated before they can do too much damage to management.

SillyUsername 3y ago
That last line isn't a joke. I've been on the receiving end of middle management because I've been able to fix things in the business that have always been broken but never got fixed until I worked on them. Management will claim it's their work, will give you just lip service, will not use your name higher up the hierarchy and will actively down play their own mistakes whilst blaming the rest of the department or developers (e.g. like building a project with wrong requirements they actually provided, then missing the deadlines because stakeholders demand changes). Where that has happened I quit and then they just go back to the status quo.
- ikekkdcjkfke 3y ago
  Hominids in suits
prmoustache 3y ago
They are not eliminated, they are assimilated. A company is like a chain, as strong as its weakest link. There is not much gain to have some links much stronger than the others. The famous "I've learnt my lesson" which means you really reached the same low level of incompetence as everyone but secretly thinking you are more competent than all the others. The funny thing is that among all those incompetent peoples / idiots mentionned there are probably smart people who just learnt their lesson years/months and adjusted to the weakest links in the chain.
- yetihehe 3y ago
  They are "dealt with". One way or another, competent people are stopped from being a problem for management, either by being eliminated (fired), or tempered down (not assimilated, more like "converted") so they are no longer competent, but that's a small difference for me.
osmsucks 3y ago
This is called the Tall Poppy Syndrome.