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Don’t shoot for the moon: aiming for ‘above average’ is key to success, maths suggests (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Another theory concerning how useless some higher ups are is that people keep getting promoted until they reach a position where they’re not doing such a good job anymore.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    Yup, which is why I hate when engineers and the like yearn for a promotion. Like, stop. You're good at what you do and you should be rewarded for that monetarily or with other benefits, but not with a promotion outside of your skill set.

    In the tech world, I don't think it's weird that a team manager (not tech lead) would make less than their best performing employees but I'm not sure if it ever happens.

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