"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" When your job is (mostly) a sham, you'd better make it seem important if you want to keep it. I've met people

"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" When your job is (mostly) a sham, you'd better make it seem important if you want to keep it. I've met people (in big corporations and universities) who are masters of seeming important while doing very little, but those people tend to really stand out when they're inserted in small companies (i.e. start-ups).