The Peter Principle and exploiting overconfident workers

Posted by paulpauper on Friday October 24, 2025 @07:07PM
from the marginalrevolution.com dept.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/10/the-peter-principle-and-exploiting-overconfident-workers.html

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Re:The Peter Principle and exploiting overconfident workers by toomuchtodo on Friday October 24, 2025 @08:20PM (#45700402)

Paper:

The Dynamics of Exploiting Overconfident Workers - https://nicolasklein.com/Fahn,%20Klein%20%282024%29_revision... - September 27th, 2024

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Re:The Peter Principle and exploiting overconfident workers by thornton on Friday October 24, 2025 @09:25PM (#45700678)

Weird unethical employer hack aside.. No one that works with/for me has the interest in an adjacent position with a more promising career trajectory.. so how common is this?

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Re:The Peter Principle and exploiting overconfident workers by jjj123 on Saturday October 25, 2025 @11:33AM (#45704661)

Isn’t moving from an ic to management exactly that? I know an ex-engineer well who switched to management because they wanted to be a VP (their words).

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