“The cream rises until it sours.”

[IDemo]

Laurence Peter, author of "The Peter Principle".

Definition of 'Peter Principle'

An observation that in an organizational hierarchy, every employee will rise or get promoted to his or her level of incompetence. The Peter Principle is based on the notion that employees will get promoted as long as they are competent, but at some point will fail to get promoted beyond a certain job because it has become too challenging for them. Employees rise to their level of incompetence and stay there. Over time, every position in the hierarchy will be filled by someone who is not competent enough to carry out his or her new duties.

That's some pricey sour cream..

[BrotherIvan]

1. If his job is lying, stealing and bullshitting

He's more than competent. It's very, very profitable don't ya know. He's Obama and Pritzker's BFF: you can't buy that kind of influence...well, I guess you can.

And every large corporation I have ever worked for proves the Peter Principle, but with one part missing: the incompetent executive must be adept at squeezing ideas from more competent and talented underlings and shamelessly take all the credit.