melsaskca comments on Remember When Bosses Were Forcing Their Workers to Use AI? They’re Now Realizing They Made a Huge Mistake: "AI is changing not only how we work, but also how we judge the people we work with."

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 67 points 1 day ago (8 children)

My own experience is that many, many "bosses" out there are not worth their hugely grotesque bonuses.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 22 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Most "bosses" in my previous company were selected by elimination. Competent people were promoted and moved to other parts of the organization and whoever was most senior got to be the next boss. Then when they failed at the job the next most senior person replaced them.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 32 points 1 day ago* (2 children)

The Peter Principle: People rise to their level of incompetence.

Let's say you're a great salesman, the best in the company, so they make you a Sales Manager. Unfortunately, that's not your strength, and you do a mediocre job, so you don't get promoted beyond that position, where you stay for years, being mediocre.

Eventually, all the middle manager positions, and maybe even the upper management positions get filled with people who were great in past jobs, but only mediocre in this one, and the entire company settles into mediocre business management.

That's the Peter Principle.

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[–] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Thank you for explaining, today I learned

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