The Peter principle of Incompetence in full effect.

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Don't know what this is in reference to, but I'll assume someone got promoted beyond their capability. It's funny, that book was apparently a big deal decades ago, and it was so accurate that people still refer to it. It's up there with Dunning Kruger, which also happens to describe much of what we see in modern life.

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