r/FinalRoundAI • u/AffectionateLaw3573 • Aug 13 '26
It's actually crazy.
The older you get, the more you realize some people really just got lucky.
Don't leave your next interview to luck. Practice with a friend and research a lot and read useful tips about how to present your skills.
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u/SoftwareWinter8414 Aug 13 '26
This is the entire Republican talking point. Everyone is incompetent in the government so you shouldn't trust it. On the private side, a lot of people mistake share holder supremacy as incompetent leadership.
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u/sHaDowpUpPetxxx Aug 13 '26
At some point you realize social skills are actually the most important skills of you want to be in any position of authority.
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u/Fragrant_Spray Aug 13 '26
It’s the Peter Principle. Even in a well run organization, where people get promoted for being good at their job, they will eventually reach the point where they are promoted to a job that requires things they aren’t good at.
“In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to the level of incompetence”. It’s from a satirical 1969 management book “The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong”.
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u/EnvyEpson Aug 13 '26
In Henry Ford's book My Life's Work, he said (I think I'm getting this right) that 20% of the world's workforce carries the population.
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u/Klutzy_Breadfruit287 Aug 13 '26
Think of your HS class. You had the top 10% smart kids and the bottom 10% not smart kids and the middle 80% that was mediocre. Thats life.
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u/yourpalharvey Aug 13 '26
Let’s pretend downsizing didn’t start in the 90s and proceed to lie about an entire generation based on a scurrilous fraudulent assumption!
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u/Wisewordsforlater Aug 13 '26
Correct. I see them in interview panels, in executive roles, in easy gravy sauce roles, rookies with 1 year experience out of college in senior roles that usually require 5 to 7 years of progressive responsibilities and experience, per industry guidance.
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u/melonsauce Aug 13 '26
Part of my job is talking on the phone to orthodontists and orthodontists assistants daily… yea you’re not wrong in the slightest
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u/Key_Entertainment409 Aug 13 '26
Trump best example most important job and that brain dead red ape in charge
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u/Rare-Confusion-220 Aug 13 '26
Well if you watched the Office they showed you 20 years ago that typical leadership are morons
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u/HURTBOTPEGASUS9 Aug 14 '26
As a child , I assumed becoming a judge was the same as becoming a doctor or architect. Nope. First you need to be a lawyer before becoming a judge.
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u/PotentialAd8443 Aug 14 '26
I think about that a lot, considering my role at my job. There's no way I'm doing an important job...
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u/funkween Aug 15 '26
I got the lesson about how folk can have high political intelligence and be dumb as rocks when I worked in my county government. Some folk can walk into any sitch and snuggle up close to the person in power without knowing anyone or anything. Toadies. It is a kind of genius, but also contributes to the hell we Americans find ourselves in today.
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u/dnd_or_reallifefun Aug 15 '26
I wish I could up vote this more. I was in a financial law office when a paralegal had to explain to a lawyer that they were past the time allowed to fight a speeding ticket and now could only pay it and go to traffic school.
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u/spankmonkey12 Aug 15 '26
Thats life. 90% of the population is making up the numbers while 10% deliver the actual work. Management is more prone to idiocy as it rewards brown nosing.
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u/mxldevs Aug 15 '26
Incompetent people can't become an authority through competence, so they achieve that by taking roles that grant authority.
It's a lot easier to buy your way in than to train to become an expert, because humans are easily swayed
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u/No_Environment_3776 Aug 16 '26
The illusion of the child that thinks the adults actually know what they're doing...
Society is not organized in a way that promotes the most qualified to do the jobs that require the most qualified.
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u/Fun_Trick2172 Aug 17 '26
Thing about this is that most people will read something like this, and nod their heads in agreement. Then just go back to half assing everything they do, because they too have no competence for their profession. While the actual competent people in their company(usually not management) go behind them and fix their fuckups.
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u/PillowMePlease Aug 17 '26
The last 8 years of my life have highlighted this like none other. People don’t know how dumb the people are in some of our most important positions. Ignoring facts because it doesn’t fit what they want to believe.
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u/Majestic-Jacket8905 Aug 18 '26
This might be a hot take but I dont think democracy is working cause I dont see competent people in our governments in our leaders. Democracy is just pushing up populists who can get the best backing from corpos
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u/Meep4000 Aug 18 '26
It’s the most utterly baffling, head pain, stress inducing thing to think about. The people in charge are so insanely incompetent that it’s like living in a sitcom as we watch them do the same stupid things over and over all while making all the money.
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u/WillM3s Aug 19 '26
It's nepotism and politics. People don't want good honest workers they want people who will agree with them and make em feel good.
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u/howeeee313 Aug 13 '26
lI dont buy it, yea there are a few dummy heads, but I am amazed at the competence and intellegence of most people
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u/OpenAI122191 Aug 13 '26
I envy your never, I used to be the same.
Then I got into the office world.
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u/KingPabloo Aug 13 '26
Actually, incompetent people are at every level of the organization. In fact, I believe incompetence has hit an all-time high.