heh go sit in at a corporation then. i believe the core concept is that they have so much money that they'll generally hire a lot of people onto projects "just

heh go sit in at a corporation then. i believe the core concept is that they have so much money that they'll generally hire a lot of people onto projects "just in case it helps the project move faster", basically overstaffing to an extreme degree where some are only adding small decorative support to the core laborers who are knocking down the real tasks. And as you said they "hire people that they expect, on average, to be worth their pay" but when one turns out to be below average they seem to let them fester for a while before eventually figuring out what to do with them -- often a transfer rather than firing. At some big companies once you have the job, you have it. Worst case scenario is then hitting your ceiling with no chance of promotion but not usually a firing from what I've seen (and I'm in the contract world, where firing is actually much easier).