And this is AvP, the appropriate place to be picky about spelling and grammar (which is probably not appropriate elsewhere on the forum, apart from being a bit rude it would be off-topic).
...and guess who often does that. Oops! (Yes, I meant me)
was known to the writers of these programmes over 30 years ago (apart from the use of "leverage").
I certainly do. The higher someone gets promoted at work, the higher what they write and say scores on buzzword bingo. It's like watching their brains dribble out of their ears on each promotion.Don't people play buzzword bingo any more?
But they appear to lose the ability to do what they used to be good at as well.
It has seemed that way to me. Then there's a version of an old saying (can't find a reference, but I've definitely heard it somewhere): "It's not what you know, it's not even who you know, it's what you know about who you know.. " . Put those together and the wrong people often rise to the top.
Probably no time to spend on what you were good at. You've now got to lick the boots* of the next higher manager.
Yep, we used to use this phrase all the time.
And that one.
They shaft the people below them to appease the people above them. $h!t from both directions ensues. I was never interested in doing that role. I still got the down-flowing brown stuff though. The opportunity arose to talk to the person right at the top a couple of years ago, so I took it, and had a partial result. Moot now, because I've gone and so has he.
I'd have liked to move up at least one level - preferably with a permanent post. I hadn't licked enough boots and a less competent person was appointed.
We are both (just) past retirement age, so I've definitely gone. He retired early, but still managed to get Emeritus Prof. status (or is that Prof. Emeritus?), so he's still there in spirit.
The version I like, and can be told to such a promoted person...
also floats!"
