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Idea for a first YouTube Video
tggzzz:
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--- Quote from: DiTBho on April 15, 2024, 11:40:42 am ---I should also upload the first video to my channel.
is there already a channel? :D :D :D
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Not yet.
I've been unable to work myself up into a state of the necessary self-confident frothy ebullience :)
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or, is this the Peter Principle kicking in ?
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What an excellent clip; well worth disinterring it :)
I've been a fan of the Peter Principle as long as I can remember.
My first two promotions were meaningless. My next promotion was also meaningless, but I argued unsuccessfully against it.
Apart from that I've been able to engineer situations where hierarchy was more or less irrelevant. In one particularly fun and good job, I had my formal boss formally working for me.
Another very useful principle: obtain your "drop dead money" https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Drop%20dead%20money
Sredni:
"...and so, we had this guy - terrific guy - who was a computer guru, and could do anything he wanted with computers, and we promoted him. We put him in charge of the sound effects in all our new videos. And that's where he showed all his incompetence..."
coppice:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on April 15, 2024, 07:56:57 pm ---Another very useful principle: obtain your "drop dead money" https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Drop%20dead%20money
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That's dated terminology. Its https://www.fuckyou.money these days.
SiliconWizard:
For sure having enough on the side to be able to think coldly about your current employment situation is a huge plus. The things we are able to do to keep our current situation, out of "fear", are sometimes very, very dumb in hindsight.
coppice:
--- Quote from: armandine2 on April 15, 2024, 06:44:32 pm ---or, is this the Peter Principle kicking in ?
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There is an interesting corollary to what he says about inappropriate promotions, that I've seen people from numerous organisations report, and its inappropriate lay offs. In a lay off many of the very best people saw it coming, and found a way out before the event. Doers tend to make enemies, so many of the most valuable people get laid off by people they have pissed off. There is a third interesting group, though. which is talked about less. They were relied on heavily by people all over the place, but didn't have a single role that in itself made them so valuable that they survived the lay off. Yet it was clear to most people that they were the most valuable in the organisation. Without them things go very badly down hill.
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