The Heart of the Matter

I'm sitting at Jitters fighting a migraine while Jen teaches kickboxing and I realize it's time to give this thing a little meat, or heart. For a zombie blog it really doesn't matter, does it?

If you are familiar with the Peter Principle, you can skip this bit. Otherwise, it states in brief "In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence." While created in a humorous tone there is genuine truth to this. It has spawned a number of related books, including two by the original authors (The Peter Prescription and The Peter Plan) as well as Scott Adam's own expansion upon the theory. I highly recommend reading these, especially if you want to understand some of the things I'll be ranting about, especially what I call . . .

Berg's Corollary

"In a Dysfunctional Hierarchy the Most Valuable Members Get Spit Out."

This may also be described as the Corporate Law of Duck and Cover. The gist of this is while all the idiots, fools and morons are busy screwing around, the useful people are having to bust their butts to keep the corporate ship afloat. While this may be all well and nice, it doesn't allow them time to play the politic game, if they were so inclined to in the first place.