There is always money available to fund management posts, not so for technical specialists.
Part of the reason behind this has been the years of outsourcing to big consulting firms leading to a drain of knowledge.
They you have the issue that generic management drones that are spewed out of every university "School of Management" have been employed that understand almost nothing. However they are now in positions of power so continue to recruit people who are equally skilled in nothing. Skilled technical professionals scare the crap out of them because we understand that these people are useless.
The final nail in the coffin has been that as skills have been lost due to outsourcing they bills to bring in the skills as contractors are too high compared to the sales garbage that is hawked round by the cloud outfits.
A trip for manglement out to Seattle or Redmond is easy and there is incentive.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
