Anyone ever feel like the corporate world is one big charade, with everyone (including senior leaders) stumbling around, BSing, and not really knowing what they’re doing pretty much any of the time?
Just curious.

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Also, yes.

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Yes. There are definitely smart folks but it’s hard navigating through BS and inefficiencies but it’s profitable

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Whenever I think someone more senior than me is bafflingly incompetent, I remind myself that they probably stopped mentally developing at 22 and then just think of them as a 22 year old with terrible skin.

Things start to make a lot more sense after that.

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The Peter Principle is real

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You think it’s just the corporate world? Lol go work in a non-corporate setting and you’ll see the level of BSing is even higher

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Lol there is a lot of BS in law (especially litigation) and doctors don’t know as much as we think they do — I get this from family members who are doctors and lawyers.

That said, I think all those fields have significantly less BS than general corporate america + consulting do

It’s not just the corporate world. Plenty of aspects in our lives are like this. Humans create a lot more stress and unnecessary work than we need to

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