Visit the past

Scott Adams the creator of Dilbert (R), hit a cord in the corporate community. Strange thing is that for all of the revealing of corporate culture over the years, nothing about how corporations do things has changed. Now I am talking about large corporations, the big monsters that can't see their own shoes. I work for one such corporation, on a project that has not gone as smooth as anyone would like.
The project is a mass transit system. Yeah, I know that mass transit never goes the way it should, but I think that this project has taken the prize for things gone wrong. In the time that I have been here, which is considerable, I have seen things that would stupify the average person. Common sense is a luxury item here, with the exception of a few hard working smart people our vehichles are more intelligent.
Now don't get me wrong, a few of the people here are top notch and hard working. The rest are the type of people you find with their hands out for a free ride in life. How did we get here? That question has been answered, but never addressed.
The dreaded Human Resources. HR in most companies is a lubering oaf at best. They cause problems with employees or management and then leave it in a lump to fester for a while. Our HR is no different. Being a large corp with many divisions, we have HR that is spead out over the company. Problem is that you have to work your way around the problem children to get anything done.
One day it was revealed that some of the guys were not getting their shift differential. Sounds like no big deal right? Well, it took our HR 8 months to figure out how much to give them. This is at least 3 years worth, at 10% thats a lot of money. They finally gave the money up, but took to much out in taxes.
HR should be the ones not being racest. Our HR person is far from it (a minority person themselves) they pick unqualified minorities to fill positions that put peoples lives at stake. Its not pretty.
There is more, but another time will tell.