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by somethingsimple
2865 days ago
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I’m always afraid of letting me consider I have it, because I always seem to be put in positions where I’m incompetent. It’s been a pattern in my career so far, and I don’t know how to break it. I join a new team, learn fast, do good work, everyone loves me. Then management assumes that because I’m good at x, I’m also good at y. So they put me to work on y and I fail miserably. Someone else has to come in and help me/fix it, and now all my credibility is gone. I try not to beat myself up about it. I consider it a management failure. My current instance of this is management assuming that because I’m a good cider, I’m also good at dealing with infrastructure/operations type stuff. Which is simply not true. I simply don’t understand their thought process. |
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>people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their "level of incompetence".
>employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another
Note that the original text was satire, but the idea itself is quite satisfying, and if true would explain all the bad bosses in the world.