Competence phase transition: Difference between revisions

(''Human resources''): Grazing grounds for [[weak gazelle]]s. A sort of purgatorial state occupied by earnest plodders who don’t really earn their keep but do the organisation no real harm, that sits below the [[cost-value threshold]] but close enough to it such that no-one can quite summon either the bureaucratic energy to proactively whack them, or crocodile tears should they unexpectedly decide to push off by themselves.

Counter-intuitively, the more senior the employee, the ''greater'' is the phase transition between those who are categorically valuable and those who are definitive fish-food. Partly, this is because the cost of getting rid of [[fat bird on a thin branch|fat birds on thin branches]] is greater, but also the more one is paid, the more senior one is likely to be, and therefore the one making the decisions who to get rid of.