Not long now until I move positions from being a primary support developer to an in-house developer / Linux server admin / security guy. It doesn’t sound like much but I’m looking forward to dropping the day-to-day support element. When you’re deep in thought fixing a problem, a random support call about something completely off topic really begins to piss you off when it’s the 4th one that hour.

Food for thought:

The competent person is the last one you want to promote, because who then would get the work done?

Competent workers get promoted to be supervisors. Supervisors supervise less competent people and by doing so, less competent people become more competent, while supervisors are allowed to get even more competent.

The problem is the incompetent supervisors. Those supervisors are quick to detect competent workers, they fire them as soon as possible, because they can get replaced by them. Therefore all workers under incompetent supervisors are incompetent.

Taken from the Peter Principle, interesting reading.