It's hilarious what some of these 'executives' do to earn their paychecks.

Two years ago we had a massive restructure designed to save 'costs' and 'move forward and improve swervices', my group were already running lean and mean and were loved by the staff we were supporting, but other geniuses had better ideas, and didn't want to leant about how we did things...

So basically all these tech guys got rounded up and put into 'dumbed down' jobs, based on a 'skills audit'. Those with 'better skills' - 'the balls to take on the job for the short term they were there, get a massive pay rise for it and ultimately stuff the whole thing up and then get a more high paid job elsewhere' - snaffled the positions.

In fact what they basically did was employ MORE MANAGERS that really did NOTHING hands-on, most had F.A technical knowledge, and guess what happened very quickly?

Well the IT Department subsequently went something like 3 million dollars in the red. So much for 'cost cutting' and improving efficiencies. Most of the more talented IT nerds left or became despondent, and guys came in on contracts and were expected to fix everything with no idea what was going. So they left too. So it was left to the manager to ply their 'expert' skill, most of which didn't even know how to configure their expensive laptops, let alone PDA's...

Anyway it took little over 15 months before the whole expensive layer of 'management' were shown the door.

The 3 million dollar deficit seems to have diminished somewhat. And the systems seem to be working better for some strange reason too....