This was a deliberate and well-known policy in a large company that I worked - to promote incompetent ones to R&D department. This is used when firing them from job is too messy due to unionism etc. They are simply moved to R&D where whatever they do doesn't affect company's business.

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fluoridation a day ago | parent [-]

Is that a promotion, though?

	▲	zkmon 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In some cases it was. In other cases, it was a move to a more relaxed work without goals.