Originally Posted by Uninteresting

low totem pole, low paid employees who screw up costing the company hundreds of dollars are the first to be fired. senior, heavily compensated employees who continually screw up costing the company hundreds of millions are for some reason allowed to keep their jobs.
my theory is that any senior level firing for incompetence (when’s the last time that’s ever happened in any company) is a reflection of the people who ultimately hired them and god forbid, they admit they made a mistake. people might actually start to put them under the microscope and question their competence. can’t let that happen. they’d rather the company lose billions than anyone accuse them of incompetence. where do they teach these character traits?