Or rules about what the wood a managers desk furniture should be made of and how many square yards of carpet "he" was allowed - note the use of the male pronoun.
These are examples from a company I used to work for in the UK.
When he started telling the story, I assumed he was pulling my leg. Once he got about three levels in and had clear details on all the differences, I realized (sadly) that he wasn't kidding.
How would a level 1 person "knock it out the park and look like they will succeed doing higher level work" if not by either doing level 2 work or succeeding in some other area that is technically above his paygrade?
>Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
Let Level 2 tasks consist of doing "aleph", "zeta" but also sometimes a little "foo".
Some L1 employee killing it in terms of time-taken-to-complete bars and bashes, as well as being solid at foo...
Is not the same as
Some L1 employee is [okay to above average] at their regular job responsibilities (foo, bar and bash) and every now and then handles aleph and zeta without trouble (and sometimes excels at it).
This working beyond your level long term is a trap you should avoid your just being taken advantage of.
Only temporarily. They'll probably find a job somewhere else, and now you've lost a great employee, need to find someone else that good and train them up again.
Basically a rehash of the other comment you got, but I found it funny you kind of answered your own question :)