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Zonder
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09 Apr 2008, 9:56 pm

I've been associated with the place where I work for 20 years and rose through the ranks to become the boss. I didn't want to be the boss, but because of circumstances said I'd take the job. I just gave notice today that they need to replace me by the beginning of next year. I've poured my entire being into what I do, but the change from being a researcher to being the administrator was more than I could take. Because I'm so stressed I've been repetitively obsessing on everything but my job the last few months and have been getting little done. I thought I should tell them I need to get out before I have a very public meltdown. (I'm in the media a lot in the town where I work.) During college I emotionally imploded my Jr. year and lately I've been feeling like the same thing is starting to happen again.

I'm relieved but sad that I will be going away from some people and places that I love very much. I don't have any other work lined up. My state's economy is 50th (the worst) in the nation. Wish me luck.

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09 Apr 2008, 10:19 pm

Sorry that happened to you. Too bad they wouldn't let you take a demotion back to what you enjoy doing. I hope you find something you like soon.


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09 Apr 2008, 10:23 pm

Thanks for the message. I actually hired someone to replace me in the researcher job I used to have. The person I hired I consider to be a good friend and I have no desire to play politics to force him out.

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09 Apr 2008, 10:42 pm

I'm sorry that had to happen. They should have given you back your old position.


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09 Apr 2008, 10:46 pm

Zonder wrote:
Thanks for the message. I actually hired someone to replace me in the researcher job I used to have. The person I hired I consider to be a good friend and I have no desire to play politics to force him out.

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Then promote your friend ;)



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10 Apr 2008, 1:32 am

Zonder wrote:
I've been associated with the place where I work for 20 years and rose through the ranks to become the boss. I didn't want to be the boss, but because of circumstances said I'd take the job. I just gave notice today that they need to replace me by the beginning of next year. I've poured my entire being into what I do, but the change from being a researcher to being the administrator was more than I could take. Because I'm so stressed I've been repetitively obsessing on everything but my job the last few months and have been getting little done. I thought I should tell them I need to get out before I have a very public meltdown. (I'm in the media a lot in the town where I work.) During college I emotionally imploded my Jr. year and lately I've been feeling like the same thing is starting to happen again.

I'm relieved but sad that I will be going away from some people and places that I love very much. I don't have any other work lined up. My state's economy is 50th (the worst) in the nation. Wish me luck.

Luck!

The Peter Principle is the principle that "In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence."
The principle holds that in a hierarchy members are promoted so long as they work competently. Sooner or later they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (their "level of incompetence"), and there they remain. Peter's Corollary states that "in time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out his duties" and adds that "work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence".


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10 Apr 2008, 5:08 am

Thomas1138 wrote:
Then promote your friend ;)


I'd love to, but he doesn't want the job - no one in the place does.

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10 Apr 2008, 5:15 am

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Luck!

The Peter Principle is the principle that "In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence."

The principle holds that in a hierarchy members are promoted so long as they work competently. Sooner or later they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (their "level of incompetence"), and there they remain. Peter's Corollary states that "in time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out his duties" and adds that "work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence".


Ha! Thanks sinsboldly. I'd heard of the Peter Principle, but never really grasped what it means. Guess it's a good thing that I realized what I'm not so good at, before someone else had to "whop me up side of the head!" :roll: Is the Peter Principle named after the Apostle Peter, or just some guy named Peter?

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10 Apr 2008, 5:32 am

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I'm sorry that had to happen. They should have given you back your old position.


Thanks CockneyRebel. Hope you're doing OK since you're recent loss. Ah, my old job. I keep thinking of the phrase "You can never go home again" and in this case its probably true. The place where I work is very specialized and only has seven full-time employees. Getting the job back would displace the guy I hired.

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10 Apr 2008, 11:05 am

Zonder wrote:
sinsboldly wrote:
Luck!

The Peter Principle is the principle that "In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence."

The principle holds that in a hierarchy members are promoted so long as they work competently. Sooner or later they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (their "level of incompetence"), and there they remain. Peter's Corollary states that "in time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out his duties" and adds that "work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence".


Ha! Thanks sinsboldly. I'd heard of the Peter Principle, but never really grasped what it means. Guess it's a good thing that I realized what I'm not so good at, before someone else had to "whop me up side of the head!" :roll: Is the Peter Principle named after the Apostle Peter, or just some guy named Peter?

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The Peter Principle is the principle that "In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence." While formulated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in a humorous book which also introduced the "salutary science of Hierarchiology" "inadvertently founded" by Peter, their 1968 The Peter Principle, the principle has real validity.


(but I had a good chuckle about it being the Apostle Peter and the implications of THAT!)



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10 Apr 2008, 12:10 pm

Good luck, and I hope things improve with you soon!


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22 Apr 2008, 7:05 am

How much are you kicking yourself for having taken this job on? ( rather than staying in the researcher post). I would be practically bashing myself to a pulp for having done that.

I hope you find some kind of similarly aspie style work as soon as you need to. I never did, but then i messed up my chances of getting into anything that interested me by succeeding at the NT-character-act just when i should have concentrated on studies. :(

Good luck.

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22 Apr 2008, 7:19 am

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How much are you kicking yourself for having taken this job on? ( rather than staying in the researcher post). I would be practically bashing myself to a pulp for having done that.

I hope you find some kind of similarly aspie style work as soon as you need to. I never did, but then i messed up my chances of getting into anything that interested me by succeeding at the NT-character-act just when i should have concentrated on studies. :(

Good luck.

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Thanks for the message, ouinon. I'm all black and blue from kicking myself! I had refused to take the job, but after they hired someone else who didn't work out, I said I'd take over. (A board member said "You need to shut up, step up, and take the job. You'll be great at it.) I've managed to do some good things, but now feel that I have failed. Does anyone out there need a consultant?

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22 Apr 2008, 8:12 am

Sorry to hear about your job situation. I hope that with this end a new door will open for you with new opportunities, and who knows, maybe even a new job that will suit you perfectly.

I know that I have gotten in over my head at jobs before. I'd take a new position after pressure form co-workers saying that I could do it, and some sort of feeling of obligation to do what's best for the company. I never listened to that voice inside that said " no! don't do it!".



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22 Apr 2008, 8:26 am

Thanks Serenity -

Hopefully I'm (and you're) getting better at listening to "the voice."

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22 Apr 2008, 9:33 am

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