Sarah Gonzalez

Turn them out.

I don't even have my wallet with me.

Alexi, you did it.

You finished the task at hand in one day instead of a week.

Better.

Hooray!

Okay, the next law is called the Peter Principle.

This one says that in a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence.

If you're good at your job, your boss notices, promotes you, and then if you're good at that job, it happens again, and you keep getting promoted until you get promoted to a job that you are not good at.

To find out what that feels like, we asked our boss, Alex Goldmark.

Just kidding.

We all think Alex is really good at his job.

But Alex, we asked you to find someone who had the self-awareness to realize that they were falling victim to the Peter Principle.

Right.

Promotion.

Totally normal.

This is how jobs work.

Right.

Just because you're a good teacher doesn't mean you're going to be a good principal.

And just because you're a good lawyer doesn't mean you're going to be good at bringing in new clients to the law firm.