[ale] pyramids??

Scott Castaline hscast at charter.net
Tue Jul 8 13:49:03 EDT 2008


Jim Kinney wrote:
> Ah, yes. The traditional route to management :) If you screw up enough 
> but posses critical information (technological or social) a promotion 
> is clearly in order.
The Peter Paul Principle, "Promote to the point of incompetency." I 
might have the name of the principle mangled a bit as my memory ain't 
the same as it used to be and it was about 30 years ago.
>
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com 
> <mailto:ale at pcartwright.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Tue July 8 2008, Jim Kinney wrote:
>     > But did the original DBA who set it up wrong in the first place
>     retain his
>     > job? If yes, the problem was not solved. But they get a very good
>     > workaround solution
>
>     after 20+ years, do you think that guy is still there??? NOOoooo,
>     he got
>     PROMOTED!!!!!
>
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