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TommyG


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this is a actual buisiness strategy, its called the dilbert principle. seems like they use it a lot with my company lol

 

The Dilbert principle refers to a 1990s satirical observation by Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams stating that companies tend to systematically promote their least-competent employees to management (generally middle management), in order to limit the amount of damage they are capable of doing.

The Dilbert principle, by contrast, assumes that hierarchy just serves as a means for removing the incompetent to "higher" positions where they will be unable to cause damage to the workflow, assuming that the upper echelons of an organization have little relevance to its actual production, and that the majority of real, productive work in a company is done by people lower in the power ladder. An earlier formulation of this effect is known as Putt's Law.



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LOL, I never heard that term before. But there sure are a lot of stupid managers out there. Maybe they're threatened by each other and don't want any intelligent people around that might bring attention to their own incompetence?

I've seen cutters promoted out of a store just to get rid of them. The company needed an assistant meat manager at another store and the best/easiest way (for his current manager) to get rid of him was to give him the spot. Complaining about him would have done no good, so he did the opposite.



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Now it all makes sense. I could not understand for the longest time how the most stupid people I ever met happen to be in charge. Thank you for clearing it up for me.

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It's called the Peter Principle. The Peter Prescription is the remedy.

It is earlier than the Putt's Law.

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Jimmymac. thats what I was thinking too-the Peter Principle

when incompetence advances

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Mainemeatman wrote:

Jimmymac. thats what I was thinking too-the Peter Principle

when incompetence advances

In some meat dept's in my area, no one wants a so called promotion. We're all union and managers don't get properly compensated. You can be a regular journeyman and make almost as much money with zero headaches/worries. Why would any intelligent person want to be a manager in that situation? The only answer is a better schedule, or you just love to give orders and (have the power to) write people up.

I've worked in shops where the apprentice was the assistant manager because no journeymen in the entire 30 (approx) stores wanted the title. So at that company, almost anyone could get into management if they wanted.

At Safeway where the company likes to fire anyone who makes a lot of money and has decent benefits, they will fire a manager and that leaves just the apprentice. Then they make the apprentice do the managers old job, but at apprentice pay of course. If the apprentice gets good advice and follows it, he/she'll demand manager pay and will get it. I work with one person who became manager that way.



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You're right, Burgermeister. No way is being meat manager worth it when you figure the few pennies extra they give managers. All the good managers I know would love to step down but can't because it would send them down to a lower pay scale...


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What's a union??


I would imagine the worst part of being a manager is being in a constant state of panic, fear for your job.

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JimmyMac wrote:

What's a union??


I would imagine the worst part of being a manager is being in a constant state of panic, fear for your job.

 It sure seems that way in some places such as Safeway



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