Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅I'm not sure if we've ever been at a point in history before where competence was an active hindrance to your professional success in the way it is now
Theolodian@pojntfx interesting point! I thought that it was just a British class system anachronism. 🤔
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@theolodian @pojntfx The British class system is what build the industrial revolution and the Empire.
If you're born into the wrong class you can't be an officer or a manager. So you get promoted to NCO or foreman and get stuck. Resulting in LOTS of REALLY GOOD NCOs and foremen, the people who actually get the work done.
Without the class system these people would have got promoted up further to their level of incompetence, hence no industrial revolution or Empire.
[This is a theory. I expect there are others to choose from.]
@TimWardCam @pojntfx dunno. I’ll sit here twiddling my thumbs, not my problem to solve if I’m not the right social class.
Schroedingers_Cat@TimWardCam @theolodian @pojntfx I think you have at least the essence of it. It used to be that those in charge were just happy to be in charge and let others do the work, people who were actually competent at it.
We have moved to a place where those in charge have come to assume that they are there because they are the best at doing the work. Which they totally are not.
And they punish people who call them out on this.
I prefer the times when the likes of Musk would say "I know nothing about making cars - but I hire the people who do know about it, and trust them".
@theolodian @TimWardCam @pojntfx Well, there has long been a situation where management are the people who agree to new software, because it provides them with what they want. But nobody asks the people who have to use it day by day.
"Oh it can give us all these reports that we need. We will take it". Ignoring the fact that it will take the people who produce the data longer to do that, and with less satisfaction*.
AI is just the next level of this. Managers think they know what their staff do, and AI can give them a tool to get it done, so they think.
@theolodian @TimWardCam @pojntfx * And so the staff will only do the parts of the work that provide management with nice reports, not the parts that are important.