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Sun May-30-10 06:51 AM
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| 23. Or where my son works the boss's girl friend |
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All the employees know but his wife and her hubby don't.
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| -Did you ever work some place where they promoted the best workers into supervisory positions? |
NNN0LHI |
May-30-10 12:59 AM |
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No and back in my salad days, there was no way |
Cleita |
May-30-10 01:01 AM |
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A woman who hired into Ford about the same time I did is the plant manager there now |
NNN0LHI |
May-30-10 01:04 AM |
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When was that? Things opened up for women in management only |
Cleita |
May-30-10 01:12 AM |
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She hired in with me in 1973. I don't recall the month? |
NNN0LHI |
May-30-10 05:16 AM |
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Both you and CLeita are wrong. This one knows it wasn't always this way. nt |
raccoon |
May-31-10 12:54 PM |
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It was usually the suck ups that got promoted. n/t |
ohheckyeah |
May-30-10 01:17 AM |
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Yep. Those with their lips firmly affixed to the boss's ass got the nod. |
LibDemAlways |
May-30-10 01:31 AM |
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And they wonder why good |
ohheckyeah |
May-30-10 01:33 AM |
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Yep, unless I was the one doing the promoting |
Lorien |
May-30-10 01:43 AM |
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Bingo! |
jillan |
May-30-10 02:12 AM |
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Or where my son works the boss's girl friend |
Bitwit1234 |
May-30-10 06:51 AM |
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This is my experience: |
olegramps |
May-30-10 08:42 AM |
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My software engineer husband worked for sociology majors with |
LibDemAlways |
May-30-10 10:29 AM |
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This is my experience also. |
AdHocSolver |
May-31-10 02:14 AM |
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I am a stay-at-home mom... |
CoffeeCat |
May-30-10 01:24 AM |
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No. The talent decreased as you went up the corporate pecking order. |
AdHocSolver |
May-30-10 02:10 AM |
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Yeah, where I work it's based on merit... |
Violet_Crumble |
May-30-10 02:17 AM |
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12 years ago when I entered the "adult" workforce |
TlalocW |
May-30-10 02:23 AM |
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I hate being lied to, and it happens all the time. My husband's |
LibDemAlways |
May-30-10 10:18 AM |
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I suggest your husband sign up with a select group of agencies that place people with his skills. |
AdHocSolver |
May-31-10 03:33 AM |
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The first thing he did was sign up with a bunch of contract houses. |
LibDemAlways |
May-31-10 10:47 AM |
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Are you kidding!? The merit system is dead, it is all about politics |
Rex |
May-30-10 02:29 AM |
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Ever hear of the Peter Principle? People keep getting promoted until they reach a position |
pundaint |
May-30-10 02:48 AM |
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You might enjoy this: "The Peter Principle Revisited: A Computational Study (Two solutions)" |
bananas |
May-30-10 02:56 AM |
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Couldn't read it, but from the abstract it sounds a little like that study where it was shown that |
pundaint |
May-30-10 04:11 AM |
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I'm stunned that ANYBODY thinks the BP management is good for anything |
TheKentuckian |
May-30-10 03:21 AM |
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This is especially true at universities |
DeltaLitProf |
May-30-10 03:37 AM |
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I hate to write this as it will seem like I am a defender of corporate types. |
Dr Morbius |
May-30-10 04:53 AM |
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my experience is that suck-ups, spies, & machiavellian types do well in the |
Hannah Bell |
May-30-10 04:55 AM |
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Where I worked on the railroad, it was the finks, the suck-ups, and the stoopid. |
Dr.Phool |
May-30-10 05:09 AM |
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I also worked for a railroad (Penn Central/Conrail) |
Urban Prairie |
May-30-10 09:18 AM |
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Back in the day |
immune |
May-30-10 09:10 AM |
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The Army. |
tabasco |
May-30-10 09:12 AM |
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The 'Peter principle'. The best workers need to be Lead/Fore persons. |
Edweird |
May-30-10 09:18 AM |
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I've seen that most often in large, publicly-traded organizations like banks |
slackmaster |
May-30-10 09:20 AM |
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Sometimes, but not always |
pipi_k |
May-30-10 09:23 AM |
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Hell no. |
TransitJohn |
May-30-10 09:24 AM |
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Usually the back stabbers and rats and the ones who took credit |
Hubert Flottz |
May-30-10 09:26 AM |
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So that explains it |
madokie |
May-30-10 09:31 AM |
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Weren't you a working supervisor though? |
NNN0LHI |
May-30-10 10:16 AM |
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Sometimes yes |
madokie |
May-30-10 01:09 PM |
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Sometimes |
treestar |
May-30-10 09:34 AM |
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well ya. i had a number of places i worked where the best, hardest worker got the promotion |
seabeyond |
May-30-10 09:35 AM |
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I work in a government/civil service position |
Madam Mossfern |
May-30-10 09:49 AM |
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Read the "Peter Principle". |
Synicus Maximus |
May-30-10 10:00 AM |
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The business world has change so much since then, I don't think it holds true any longer. |
Greyhound |
May-31-10 01:11 PM |
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No. I worked for the State of PA. The supervisors had some previous |
old mark |
May-30-10 10:01 AM |
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Suckups and Fuckups become supervisors. |
undeterred |
May-30-10 10:06 AM |
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Nope. |
Arkana |
May-30-10 10:07 AM |
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Actually, yes. The place I work now. |
johnaries |
May-30-10 10:47 AM |
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Yes - the military. nt |
kelly1mm |
May-30-10 03:38 PM |
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absolutely. |
fleabert |
May-31-10 02:23 AM |
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Find this less true if you're a person of color, tolerance level of incompetence is low and sponsors |
uponit7771 |
May-31-10 04:24 AM |
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just wow? play the race card much?... I've non-color incompetence promoted due to old boys network |
HipChick |
May-31-10 10:59 AM |
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It's not a fucking card. |
Raineyb |
May-31-10 05:28 PM |
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Yes, once |
Ohio Joe |
May-31-10 10:55 AM |
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Well, as a non-degreed accounting-type person, I have always been in small businesses |
catzies |
May-31-10 10:57 AM |
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I've worked in two family-owned businesses. Impossible to |
LibDemAlways |
May-31-10 11:30 AM |
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Nope - surpervisors were almost inevitably failures |
HughMoran |
May-31-10 11:32 AM |
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It was usually the drinking buddies and coke suppliers. |
alfredo |
May-31-10 11:38 AM |
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Generally speaking the best rose, but not as quickly or as high as ass kissing idiots. |
ThomWV |
May-31-10 12:24 PM |
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Way back when I worked for GTE |
hobbit709 |
May-31-10 12:29 PM |
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No |
ampad |
May-31-10 12:52 PM |
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Yup. |
woofless |
May-31-10 12:59 PM |
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The only major promotion I've seen at my recent job... |
W_HAMILTON |
May-31-10 01:14 PM |
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Generally NO, but not absolutely |
Populist_Prole |
May-31-10 01:34 PM |
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I am a supervisor |
Brooklyns_Finest |
May-31-10 02:01 PM |
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my experience is the same as yours. nt |
xchrom |
May-31-10 05:31 PM |
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