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What I learned about imposters
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Posted By: Judy W., 7/29/2021 12:54:50 PM

Working for a major business, I discovered firsthand that big corporations are actually small governments. Therefore, their problems, and their solutions, point the way to how we can identify, and repair, what is going wrong with America. In the 1990s, I was attending college after completing twenty years in the armed forces. I was studying business accounting. To help pay for my schooling, I took a part-time, low-level job with a subcontractor for a large company whose name is synonymous with top-of-the-line computer technology. In that job, I got a close-up look at the inner workings of one of the corporations I was studying

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I'd guess it was IBM. Great story. It seems that many of the dead wood employees knew they were dead wood but managed to cling to their jobs until a new regime came in. In the government, I'll bet a lot of the worst employees think they're great and have no idea they're dead wood.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: red1066 7/29/2021 1:53:00 PM (No. 861332)
I know exactly what he's talking about. In major corporations, the cream of employees don't rise to the top because they're too valuable in the positions they'll already in. I've had at least three jobs where my boss and my bosses boss were in the positions because they either friends with the CEO, or some other high executive. One boss was an out and out drunk, but they kept him on because of who he knew. I personally was more qualified for several positions in a couple of companies, but they moved others up because that particular division wouldn't suffer with their promotion.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: skacmar 7/29/2021 2:32:48 PM (No. 861362)
This article stated exactly what is wrong with government and how to correct it. The problem is that nobody who works in government will comprehend it. Donald Trump knew that the government and economy needed to be operated like a business. Those in power now feel that we are some kind of endless charity with tax revenues as our endowment fund. They have no idea what it is like in the real world or that eventually, the free money in the endowment fund will run out due to all of their grandiose ideas and giveaways.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Italiano 7/29/2021 2:36:20 PM (No. 861365)
A company that I worked for in the 90's had an informal motto: "Screw up, move up."
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Reply 4 - Posted by: crashnburn 7/29/2021 3:48:26 PM (No. 861435)
Peter Principle: Move up to your level of incompetence. Biden is an over achiever!
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Vaquero45 7/29/2021 3:55:56 PM (No. 861440)
This author is correct: he isn’t qualified to write for The American Thinker. He can’t spell “impostor.”
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Newtsche 7/29/2021 5:06:19 PM (No. 861504)
Many decades ago I read an article claiming the biggest source of anxiety in the workplace was being exposed as unqualified for the job one held. Of course, that's now a feature, not a bug.
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