What I love about Dilbert is how close it represents not only my workplace; I am guessing this pretty mush represents everyone’s workplace to some degree. Written by Scott Adams, the comic is written loosely based on the Peter principle, that is people are promoted to their level of incompetence and no longer promoted to move them out of the workflow. 

The Dilbert principle is people who were never competent are promoted to management to limit the damage they can do –  that’s the government process.  What I have viewed in so many workplaces is the high performers use this experience to move on to a better position usually in a better business. The mediocre performers hold on to their positions at all costs creating roadblocks, lowering productivity, not sharing important information and building discontent to achieve their goals of destroying workplace culture – he pretty much nailed it here.