it's absurd in any practical sense. but it's a great story to keep the rank and file mostly satisfied most of the time. politics in the end is a part of life;

it's absurd in any practical sense. but it's a great story to keep the rank and file mostly satisfied most of the time. politics in the end is a part of life; it should not dominate or overshadow goal oriented work, but it is a natural, unavoidable consequence of people holding different viewpoints. on the other hand, all the openness strategies they suggest are great, and these do work well in practice to mitigate conflict [but politics does not equal conflict].