That can lead to a lot of inefficiency and friction, and people ditching their jobs for the jobs they'd like to do. How do I know? At my current company, the I

That can lead to a lot of inefficiency and friction, and people ditching their jobs for the jobs they'd like to do. How do I know? At my current company, the IT department currently has no formal boss. So a few ambitious people decided they'd rather not do the boring programming work, and take advantage of the void. But they don't feel like being called to task. The current climate is far from ideal, and there's a lot of backstabbing going on, and if you feel responsible (for maintaining the invisible legacy systems for example), you lose to the ambitious guys. On the plus side, I'm learning a lot about social dynamics :) . I've given up on advancing here, but the experience will be useful.