>I think that any large bureaucracy, including ones in big corps, attract people like this. This is certainly true of my last employer. Let's just say it's a f

>I think that any large bureaucracy, including ones in big corps, attract people like this. This is certainly true of my last employer. Let's just say it's a famous Fortune 500 company, in heavy industry. I have seen a great many people promoted to their level of incompetence. I had the combination of having good technical skills but terrible organizational political skills. This company currently has a director of Cyber Security who doesn't know what ICMP is or why it's not feasible to block all ICMP traffic on internal firewalls & switches. Having no technical abilities but outstanding political skills have served her well.