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** 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!''

* 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 author of the comic ''[[Dilbert]]'' wrote an entire book dedicated to how promotion has changed from this to what he calls the Dilbert Principle, in other words, instead of people getting promoted to their lowest level of competence, any and all incompetent employees are placed in the one place where they can do the least damage: Management.

** Which in turn leads to the creation of managers like the [[Pointy-Haired Boss]].