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'''Basic Trope''': A character who's in a managerial position is completely incompetent at their job.
* '''Straight''': [[The Peter Principle|Peter Harrison]] is a manager at [[Incompetence, Inc.]]. He's a total buffoon who has no idea what he's doing.
* '''Exaggerated''': Peter isn't aware of his job responsibilities, what's going on around him, or even where he works.
* '''Justified''': Peter used to be fairly competent at his job, but he was unable to handle the strains of managerial duties.
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** Everyone else is even worse
* '''Inverted''': [[Almighty Janitor|Peter is way too competent for his low-ranking job]].
* '''Subverted''': At first Peter seems to have all the hallmarks of the [[Pointy
** Peter is expected based on his past incompetence to fail at a task, but it happens to fall within his single area of specialty and he succeeds.
* '''Double Subverted''': Bob only scratched the surface; he's way less competent than even his worst enemy thought.
** Peter's surprise success was entirely an accident.
* '''Parodied''': Peter is so incompetent at management that, in a completely mundane office environment, his employees start dying off in various absurd/tragic ways.
** [[Incompetence, Inc.]]'s main competitor declares Peter to be ''their'' Employee of the Month.
* '''Deconstructed''': Peter's incompetence comes back to bite him in the butt when the newest [[Incompetence, Inc.]] product fails due to him. His entire office is shut down, costing all the employees there their jobs.
* '''Reconstructed''': While there are some heavy losses on his end, Peter's office manages to weather the storm, but he's exposed as an incompetent. He's demoted back to Sales, which is where he wanted to be in the first place.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Peter is competent in some functions of his job and abysmal in others.
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* '''Conversed''': See any bar at happy hour.
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