[hef19898]

As someone who did his fair share of project work across departments, first as resource and later as a manager type, people like Steve arw everywhere. And they are a pain to work with, have no real influence whatsoever. All they are is not enough of a nusiance to be delt with, which ultimately they will if their attics block the wrong people's project.

That being said, if I have to deal with the "command line" people by tellong them each and every step of the work they are supposed to do, more often than not I'm faster doing it myself. There are places for those people, places they actually provide a ton of value because strictly following procedure is paramount, things progress faster when people can get an assignment and everyone else can count a) the assigment being completed on time or b) everyone getting a heads if not.

Those other roles are tge easiest to automate, and by no means do they justify the salaries some people are expecting to be paid.