[forgetfreeman]

Couple of things.

1. The author said IT departments. This ostensibly includes everything from software development to systems admininstration, vendor management, and end-user support. Plenty of drudge work to be found there.

2. If your codebase requires someone to be on the edge of the bell curve of human intelligence to work on it is almost certain that mistakes have been made by very smart people.

3. The author is absolutely implying that the worst people are left, which is entirely my point. They have most likely never encountered the idea that managing folks to their strengths is more effective than trying to cram the room full of edge-of-the-bell-curve unicorns.