Where I used to work we called that a “shit can promotion”
I’m thinking The Peter Principle.
“In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”
F up, move up. That’s at least how we in the AF saw it. I personally know of two officers, who through their own neglect, crashed their respective helicopters and went on to be General Officers. One of them ruined two others lives by harming them mentally and physically.