[veganhouseDJ]

Totally agree.

There are also these ridiculous dynamics to the system that a new incompetent manager can burn a department to the ground and then get another promotion for rebuilding the department to 25% of what it was before they burned it down.

What is missing is a type of null hypothesis to judge the manager against. Would the department actually be better off if we paid them to watch Netflix?

This is probably something deep in human nature though when it comes to money and business because it is almost the definition of Keynes animal spirits. A spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction. We just don't like the idea of inaction when it comes to business and money.

[thenerdhead]

You're describing the Dilbert principle. A joke on the Peter Principle and yet serves very true in my experience as to "put people in places where they cause the least amount of damage".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_principle