Experiments find higher social class more likely to have inflated sense of skill

Re:Experiments find higher social class more likely to have ... by shados on Monday May 20, 2019 @05:30PM (#19965429)

Confirmation bias here, but I find this fascinating. I'm Canadian living in the US, and see these overconfident people who are incompetent in the industry and it drives me banana, but across several previous jobs (again, in the US), everyone seemed completely oblivious to it and thought these people were awesome (they were absolutely not).

In one case, I watched a high executive tank a company into the ground (provably, with numbers to back it up that it was as a direct result of their own decisions) and got promoted 3 times for it. Eventually left their job and took an even higher position at another, bigger company.

No one seems to notice this. Its insane.

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Re:Experiments find higher social class more likely to have ... by borkt on Monday May 20, 2019 @05:35PM (#19965488)

Seen this too, literally leaving a company's production in shambles then takes a promotion to work at a competitor.

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Re:Experiments find higher social class more likely to have ... by shados on Monday May 20, 2019 @05:47PM (#19965603)

yup, thats what happened...but even more is that before that, they got promoted...at the company in shambles. Multiple times.

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Re:Experiments find higher social class more likely to have ... by cannonedhamster on Monday May 20, 2019 @10:21PM (#19967124)

This isn't uncommon... Sadly. This is what happens when politics in a company is more important than deliverables the customers pay for. It's generally a sign the company is in a death spiral.

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Re:Experiments find higher social class more likely to have ... by dorgo on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @02:20AM (#19967947)

Wait, maybe it's not incompetence but strategy?

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