With QANTAS about to be taken over by Gordon Gekko I thought it might be amusing for people to give examples of the classic beancounter/manager stories. Things that the no experience clown brigade have done that destroy companies. Only airlines please, there are too many GA ones and they belong elsewhere. No names due to liability issues.
I thought I'd kick it off with a company I worked for that invested way too much money developing a whizbang rostering system that worked fine until you checked your times and realised that you didn't turn into a pumkin after several breaches. You then had to double up on your paperwork, still manually checking and after 3 versions it still allowed breaches and was still costing a heap of money that used to go into our pockets. I remember telling senior managers that I was in breach only to be told I wasn't coz the system said so.
