I know what you mean
"What annoys the hell out of me is that people are constantly being brought into company with neither of these skills, onto ladders much further down the hall from me."


Yup. I had that problem.

A director in a company I worked for seemed to think it was his duty to treat the firm as a 'lifeboat' for all his chums whose own companies had come a cropper during the IT bubble burst of 2001.

While all us 'bread & butter' earners were being bombarded with emails telling us about pay & hiring freezes - we'd get an equal amount of mails telling us how "John Murphy is joining us from GoneBustCorp as an overpaid consultant. He will be tasked to work in the 'Glad Handing & Luncheon Expense Account' Division."

The fucking eejit never realised of course that they were all taking the utter piss out of him by using his largesse to keep them in Edwardian town houses, trophy wives and this year's BMW until they could get a better gig.
(Fanta Menace Is tall enough to see over the fence, Sat 26 Jan 2008, 9:43, Reply)