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A common example of this is in any technical field where an especially good engineer may be promoted to lead engineer and then made a supervisor. Now, his strongest skillset is going unused—supervisors don't get to engineer directly—and he struggles to get by using his less developed management skills.
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A common cause of the [[Pointy-Haired Boss]] and [[Modern Major-General]]. The [[Career-Building Blunder]] is one method of defying this trope. Compare and contrast [[Brain Drain]].
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== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[The Office (2005 TV series)|The Office]]'''s Michael Scott, Regional Manager of the Scranton branch of Dunder-Mifflin. It's shown that he used to be a great salesman and still is when called upon but has [[Pointy-Haired Boss|none of the right skills for management]]. His [[The Office (UK series)|UK counterpart]] is less this and more simply a guy that flaked out once cameras started being pointed at him.
** By extension, Dwight would be a clear example of this too if he ever got promoted, and even Jim Halpert, who is very intelligent but still somewhat immature, has fallen victim to this.
* Jack Donaghy of ''[[30 Rock]]'', who was promoted from the ''oven'' division of [[Mega Corp|GE]], was written this way early on. Liz Lemon, too
** Strangely justified for Jack, as [[Real Life]] GE has been known to routinely shuffle upper-level management between unrelated departments.
** As of the 100th episode, this is really starting to haunt Jack, who never expected to be stalled on one corporate rung for five years.
* Archie "Snake" Simpson in ''[[Degrassi]]'': competent, well-liked and respected, [[Reasonable Authority Figure]] tech teacher who has the school spiral out of control as principal, [[Took a Level in Jerkass|cracks down hard]], and has already begun capitulating less than five episodes later, in one case to a student who ''covered his car in Post-It notes!''
* The title character of ''[[The Brittas Empire]]'' is so far above his competence level at this point that people will write him glowing recommendation letters in order to get rid of him.
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