Beware the Dead Sea Effect at Companies
“Salty” is a terrible adjective to apply to a job.
Table of Contents
· The Peter Principle — rise to your incompetence
· The Dead Sea Effect — bad situations get worse
· What can we do to avoid these effects?
· Check your job for the Peter principle or Dead Sea saltiness
∘ Have you ever dealt with a boss or job that matched one (or both!) of these concepts?
For a while, my significant other worked at Google. She’s a hard worker at every job she holds (and definitely puts in more work than I do, most days), but her stories about Google make me envious.
I won’t go into details, but the company provides stellar perks. Even though she was working in a contractor position, rather than as a permanent employee, she regaled me with tales of their cafeteria offerings, their fitness equipment, and other perks.
Even beyond the employee perks, Google was a great place for people to work. It offers excellent pay, recognizes and acknowledges its employee contributions, and it tackles a lot of complex, real-world problems. Another friend of mine works on YouTube, helping build better methods to automatically remove hate and banned content…
