We’ve all seen the Peter Principle abused. I had a supervisor once who I thought was okay AS a supervisor. Not great, but fair, and easy to work for. Then he was promoted to manager, and it was Jekyll and Hyde time. He became a total jerk. Zero people skills, but that was the least of it. His first official act was to take a Hawaiin vacation with the woman from HR who got him the promotion. Only after he came back did he bother to see about hiring a replacement for his old position- and what a loser he found! Then he set about hiring unqualified friends for other managerial positions. And when someone dared to whisper one word of complaint to a co-worker it got back to him, and he called the entire department together to scream at us all.
We’ve all seen the Peter Principle abused. I had a supervisor once who I thought was okay AS a supervisor. Not great, but fair, and easy to work for. Then he was promoted to manager, and it was Jekyll and Hyde time. He became a total jerk. Zero people skills, but that was the least of it. His first official act was to take a Hawaiin vacation with the woman from HR who got him the promotion. Only after he came back did he bother to see about hiring a replacement for his old position- and what a loser he found! Then he set about hiring unqualified friends for other managerial positions. And when someone dared to whisper one word of complaint to a co-worker it got back to him, and he called the entire department together to scream at us all.