Literature
''After a career spent focused on promotion, on sucking up to his superiors and frequent transfers to punch as many tickets as possible, he hadn't managed to acquire all that many concrete job skills. Doing the job hadn't been the point. Not for him. Doing the job got in the way of maneuvering for that next promotion.
Web Original
Let's just get this out of the way: As a whole, our society is horrible at getting human beings into the jobs they're most suited for. Look around you — you'll find yourself under managers who shouldn't even be trusted to manage a stuffed animal tea party, and you'll meet brilliant creative minds who are stuck spinning signs while dressed as Little Caesar.
—Cracked, "6 Ways You're About to Get Screwed by the Job Market"
Let's consider, first of all, Eric Saward's television experience prior to writing The Visitation. Well. That was a short list. OK, let's move on to his television experience prior to becoming script editor then: The Visitation. If ever there was a case of promoting someone too fast, this is surely it.
Folks, I could go on and on about how Art’s knowledge of the product was less-than-nil. I could belabor how his “Grampa Simpson” style of delivery piped up with some bit of nonsense just often enough to remind you he was there, while at the same time, chasing all other cohesive thoughts from your mind. I could raise the concern that his repeated inquiries of 'Did dat really hurt ‘im?' didn’t do any favors for us on the suspension-of-disbelief front.
—Wrestlecrap, "Art Donovan
- Man of a Thousand Questions. And They Were all, "How Must Does This Guy Weigh?""
- Man of a Thousand Questions. And They Were all, "How Must Does This Guy Weigh?""Someone who sucked so much on Inside Edition that Fox decided to give him a job as a bs artist on its network. Also, he hates celebrities because they wouldn't give him the time of day on said Inside Edition show. Likes to use vibrators on himself.
— Urban Dictionary on Bill O'Reilly
Look, I know we go on and on about the various celebrities and media outlets who continue to attach themselves to Richardson, but no matter how loudly people scream about what a terrible, shitball of a human being he is, there seems to be no shortage of famous people who are willing to laugh it off and gleefully pose in his terrible photos...I have shot better pictures of my feet accidentally while I was drunk. COME ON.
Real Life
The army with its unerring gift for placing people where they would be least useful and most vulnerable had made the nearly blind Sibley a scout. His reported adventures began when his only pair of glasses was broken and the army's difficulty in supplying him with a new pair reduced his utility as a scout in freezing weather... It is my impression that the so-called 'best and brightest' were routinely killed off which might explain the notoriously low level of those now in political life and, to be fair, in the arts as well.
—Gore Vidal, Point to Point Navigation
