> Companies are ruthless about cutting fat. They have departments dedicated to isolating unnecessary employees and firing them. Some companies, maybe. I've kno

> Companies are ruthless about cutting fat. They have departments dedicated to isolating unnecessary employees and firing them. Some companies, maybe. I've known enough companies that tolerated and in some cases enjoyed fat, to understand as a rule what you're claiming doesn't hold. Including lots of fat shaped like management layers. Other forms of fat include "we don't want to fire these people, so let's give them symbolic work until they retire", "these are all friends of people in upper management, so don't fire them even though nobody knows what they actually do", "these people were hired as a PR stunt and now they really don't have much to do", "we have to go through the motions of doing this project, even though everyone knows it's doomed, it's just for show anyway", and many, many more. Companies can be very, very inefficient and still work.