Sasha :verifiedtransbian:@sashag@anarres.family
@JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw There's an organizational principle about this, named after its original author Lawrence J. Peter, the peter principle: "In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
I was lucky to find the niche I'm really good at, which is management (although I don't like this term, I don't manage people, I work with teams).
And now I'm trying to get to a point where I can do more of what I'm really good at.
I've been an okay-ish engineer, but that's enough to understand what my folks are working on.
Joscelyn Transpiring@JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw
@sashag@anarres.family There's some mixed stuff around the Peter Principle and the Dunning-Krueger Effect in terms of evidence, but there is a certain intuitive truth about it. There are definitely people and organizations it describes!
And also, what you said about management is true too! I know some people who are great at doing the administrative and coordinating work for research teams or community programs, but who really struggle doing the work itself. Those people should be supported in doing that and thriving in those roles too, as managerial or coordinating labor is also a thing! Often, the people who are doing the real bones of that work though are given titles like "administrative assistant" and treated as being lower status so they can be exploited, whereas I think those are the real rockstars, you know?
Grumble grumble rant rant
