[AnimalMuppet]

True, in the long run. But what usually happens is that the new hire takes a week or a month to decide that a process is stupid and wasteful, and shoots his/her mouth off about what a stupid process it is, and burns a bunch of bridges.

Maybe this should be a rule of thumb: Don't criticize anything during your first six months. If it's your first job out of school, don't criticize anything during your first year. Learn what's really going on, and why things are the way they are. Then you can criticize.