[seven_stones]

The other lesson is that incompetence of this magnitude on one issue is always a symptom of incompetence generally.

I have seen this over and over again with multiple companies. It's not like everything else is first-rate and somehow just one glaring thing slipped by them. That's what we'd like to believe.

Instead, there is a systemic problem with horrible decision-making that will infect every level of operations, until the organization finally collapses into a black hole of infinite stupidity.

Well, that may be a little extreme. Some of them putter along as White Dwarfs.