Re: The reason I'm only a geek in my private time
> I bet you could randomly fire at least half the management from any company and when the shock settles down, you'd realise that they weren't actually that necessary...
At one former employer, it was nauseating to see just how many people in the company org chart were directors---directors with nobody reporting to them. When a big chunk of the IT team were laid off during an ill-considered outsourcing arrangement (it got several higher-ups, including the CIO, a personalized escort out the door by security), the jobs of those directors-with-no-reports were untouched. I'm aware of a couple of them that, ten years later, are still there---directing nobody in particular.