Saw a really dumb statement in a money.msn.com "item"

[zbdent]

(and no, it wasn't from the comments section from some dope).

"... only 41% of workers who have been in dead-end jobs for more than a decade reported ever receiving a promotion."

HUH??? I thought that definition of a "dead-end job" was that there was no hope for promotion ...

[Sherman A1]

1. Well,

we have to remember that the folks at money.msn.com might either not be the brightest crayons in the box or perhaps they too are in dead-end jobs.

[Art_from_Ark]

2. There's always a chance of going from lowest man on the totem pole

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to the next lowest, I guess.

At a factory I worked at, the lowest people on the totem pole were the "line people". Then there were "group supervisors" and above them, the "shift supervisors". A few locals became "group supervisors" and maybe 2 or 3 could expect to become a "shift supervisor" somewhere down the line. But that was it, as the company would bring in people from Michigan to fill the higher slots. So, like a "dead-end street", the locals could, possibly, travel a little way, but no further.

[zbdent]

3. I guess you COULD manage the guy who

cleans the nozzles on the soup dispensing machine (I think I got the Red Dwarf reference correct) ...

[formercia]

4. Seniority

Even Maggots have a pecking order.