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▲ gherkinnn 6 hours ago

Smells awfully like the Gervais Principle to me, where the petering manager is part of the clueless class.

▲AnimalMuppet 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Note that the Peter Principle came long before the Gervais Principle. It might be more true to say that the Gervais Principle is largely a restatement of the Peter Principle.

▲the_af 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I think they are related but focus on different things. The Gervais principle talks of losers, clueless and sociopaths (with a focus on the latter), not something the Peter Principle deals with. I'd say the Peter Principle deals mostly with what the Gervais Principle calls "the clueless".