Many times I wondered, how could this person be the head of IT, a project manager, or whatever; they are complete idiots. I had the head of IT at the largest law firm "they are all here" scream at me when I told him that the problem is in the Windows Registry and that the software was not overwriting certain keys on legacy Win95 boxes but were on NT. He didn;t believe that Windows had a registry and fired me on the spot. Before I left, I had a lawyer click start then type in RegEdit and asked him what did the Window title say. Clown.
I had a project manager at Goldmann that claimed to be a previous Cisco Certified Engineer that didn't know the difference between logging into a local machine verses the network. Amazing.
I worked with a senior software architect at Citi who couldn't program, write code, open up an IDE, or know any design patterns were telling me what had to be built. I sat in a meeting on my first day with 20 people screaming at me why hasn't my department delivered on x. y, z and I didn't even have a computer yet. Had a secretary which was promoted to domain admin and thought to lock me out of my work by deleting registry keys until no one could get in the server including herself, putting 6 months of portal work into the garbage.
At TIA-Cref I had another secretary made senior analyst domain admin just take my raid array and wiped it out so she could test some graphic software for a user. I had installed hardware and software to remote boot a machine on a production server that had no more space on the original drives.
At Philip Morris I had an IT manager scould me for giving a password in an email for them to try out. As the domain admin, programmer, and database engineer I had full control. I built software that they didn't even know needed as a side project. So I wiped the database and rebuilt it and told him to try again. Clown.
It's about bloodlines, real work is done by consultants and are never hired, just pressured to give up their IP so the bloodlines can continue.
Money is truly fake. Either the powers at be want you to have it or not, period.