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PC printer problems and enraged execs: When the answer to 'Hand over that floppy disk' is 'No'

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Re: Ah IT 'managers'

Peter Principle. They are middle managers because they have been promoted to their level of incompetence, and now know just enough not to be sacked but won't go any higher. A colonel once told me that the MoD was full of majors who had managed to get to that rank and would go no higher and who were doing jobs that could be done by a competent PA - and, this being the 1980s, added "but much less attractively."

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