[Spooky23]

I worked at a place where they had an entire division of people basically filled the role of Tom Smykowski from Office Space.

It was both pitiful and amazing. They didn’t really produce any valuable output, but by scheduling meetings and debriefings and briefings, etc they were able to engage at high levels. The dude in charge somehow took over project managers, and they literally started building these colored briefing binders inspired by some History channel documentary the featured the President’s daily briefing by the CIA.

At the end, I started losing talented engineers to folks getting significant promotions to attend meetings with bigshots. The rationale was that in order to deliver the “CIA briefing” to the VP of Custodial Services, you had to be a Director or something.