"I had a wonderful experience at the post office," said no one ever (3 Viewers)

[MPMc]

the Peter Principle is an old business adage that says people rise in a company until they reach a level of incompetence, and that is where they stay. Every single postal supervisor and manager fit that description.

 

[MPMc]

1. What is "Peter principal"?
2. My image of US postman will always will be Newman from Seinfield....Are this far from reality?

There are some bad letter carriers, like in every job out there. But most of my fellow employees worked very hard for many years and did the best they could under some very tough conditions.

 

[ekricket]

1. What is "Peter principal"?
2. My image of US postman will always will be Newman from Seinfield....Are this far from reality?

From the internet’s

The Peter principle states that a person who is competent at their job will earn a promotion to a position that requires different skills. If the promoted person lacks the skills required for the new role, they will be incompetent at the new level, and will not be promoted again.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle#cite_note-:0-2"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a> If the person is competent in the new role, they will be promoted again and will continue to be promoted until reaching a level at which they are incompetent. Being incompetent, the individual will not qualify for promotion again, and so will remain stuck at this final placementor Peter's plateau.

This outcome is inevitable, given enough time and enough positions in the hierarchy to which competent employees may be promoted. The Peter principle is therefore expressed as: "In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." This leads to Peter's corollary: "In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties." Hull calls the study of how hierarchies work hierarchiology.

 

[MPMc]

From the internet’s

The Peter principle states that a person who is competent at their job will earn a promotion to a position that requires different skills. If the promoted person lacks the skills required for the new role, they will be incompetent at the new level, and will not be promoted again.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle#cite_note-:0-2"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a> If the person is competent in the new role, they will be promoted again and will continue to be promoted until reaching a level at which they are incompetent. Being incompetent, the individual will not qualify for promotion again, and so will remain stuck at this final placementor Peter's plateau.

This outcome is inevitable, given enough time and enough positions in the hierarchy to which competent employees may be promoted. The Peter principle is therefore expressed as: "In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." This leads to Peter's corollary: "In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties." Hull calls the study of how hierarchies work hierarchiology.

Thanks. I was close!

 

[ekricket]

Thanks. I was close!

For the second part, about postal carriers, I can’t answer that. We don’t have any here, you have to go to the post office and get your mail. Which is convenient for things like this, plus they hold packages there automatically until I pick them up. Never a package sitting in my porch unless its FedEx or UPS, and even then it’s not on my porch it’s somewhere in the woods at the top of my driveway.

UPS delivered a Barrington table for me once, they threw it into the snowbank from the snowplow at the top of my driveway and then it snowed more on it. I didn’t get it for two days, but it was double boxed and still freezing outside so it was ok.

 

[MPMc]

For the second part, about postal carriers, I can’t answer that. We don’t have any here, you have to go to the post office and get your mail. Which is convenient for things like this, plus they hold packages there automatically until I pick them up. Never a package sitting in my porch unless its FedEx or UPS, and even then it’s not on my porch it’s somewhere in the woods at the top of my driveway.

UPS delivered a Barrington table for me once, they threw it into the snowbank from the snowplow at the top of my driveway and then it snowed more on it. I didn’t get it for two days, but it was double boxed and still freezing outside so it was ok.

You are WAY out there....,!