1974: Are YOU at your level of INCOMPETENCE? | The Peter Principle | BBC Archive 

Especially government employees!

More accurate than ever, it would seem!

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It’s sad that being good at your job isn’t reason enough to give you more money. You have to do management, which is an entirely different job.

Yes I was in the Civil Service for all my working life. The only way to get more money was to get promoted. Unfortunately, this lead to a lot of people in jobs that they were totally unsuitable for.

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Very brave asking to be demoted. His extended theory, that people are employed until they leave that job through retirement, redundancy or being fired. We have had a couple of people who decided to revert to their previous grade. Mentioned with a sort of stigma - probably envied by some in the same position.

@DnB and Psy Production yes but the ratio is 100:1

In our current system, managers are paid too much, simply by being managers. Skilled workers should be paid well, according to their merit. Same for skilled managers. Skilled managers should be paid more than their unskilled workers. And skilled workers should be paid more than their unskilled managers. To see this played out would actually discourage bad managers from seeking management positions, as their compensation would be lower than that of the people they manage, depriving them of at least one power they currently hold over the skilled worker, which is higher pay. The management 'skill tree' should run 2D parallel to the worker 'skill tree', not 3D over it.

Totally agree. I was a teacher for 17 years. Topnotch the pay scale, the managers were crap at thrir job, they were all teachers who had no training. I refused to be s manager as I knew nothing about managing...

​@@mourtejin how would the low skilled workers who'd make great managers get promoted?

Be a manager but be the best manager. Doing this makes life so much better for employees that suffer under poor management. When you become a manager study, learn and be conscientious. The fact you are here says you can be.

princiPLE. It was even written on the interstitials.

Be careful with things that sound true and explain everything. I'd question the assumption that there wasn't "mediocrity" before.

Does it need a whole book to explain a principle that can be explained in a couple of sentences.

@@vjosullivan you can also explain how to do jaw surgery in a couple of sentences

Lol people getting so triggered

lol

Goes to show how well realised the satire of Serafinowicz and Time Trumpet etc actually was.

Almost if all his shows contained parody’s.

not really, they were crap when I remember them in the 70s and still crap now

@@jimb12312 Yes, I think that is exactly what makes it vintage. 😉 what definition do you have for that word?

Those animators and syth wizards need a promotion!

I find them silly and annoying. Too loud as well. However, they look dated in a nostalgic way, so that's a plus.

Had to look it up: Parkinson’s Law - Originally published: 1942 ... 80 years old! and just as the US joined the war. Even more impressive...

Yeah I kinda wanna know where the person “doing digital” in 1974 ended up 😂

They seldom even teach managers at universities. I have a bachelor and master degrees in management and business administration. These 2 are actually uselles pieces of paper, since 90% of the stuff that is taught at university is plainly wrong and incomplete. Now wonder that the average lifespan of a firm is so low, most of them are managed by incompetent people.

What if the boss is also at his own level of incompetence?

That is exactly his point. The way he says it is humorous way…ha..ha.

Trump also!