The same crap exists in all kinds of forms. At my last job, we had some really incompetent people clogging the system. They'd get laid off when a program was finished, and rehired when a new one started up. I asked one of the managers had re-hired one of these types that are known to not be able to do the job why, and his comment was that management knows him. No amount of coaching could get these guys up to speed. They should never have been re-hired.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
