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Inspired By the Peter Principle: the Peter Pinnacle

Posted by timothy on from the but-that's-the-goal dept.

bfwebster writes "Michael Swaine — long-time, well-known and very prolific author/editor in the programming and personal computing worlds — has just devised a new twist on the Peter Principle: the Peter Pinnacle, 'meaning to get promoted so high and to be so unqualified for your job that the company tells you that you can name your price just to go away.' I'm sure the timing of the neologism is just a coincidence."

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  1. Regarding Kings by AliasMarlowe · · Score: 5, Interesting

    According to Ralph Waldo Emerson, "when you strike at a king, you must kill him". Merely spilling his blood nonfatally can leave you getting unwanted attention from an irate king and his cohorts of stooges.

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    Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire