Qfcainer,
You are 100% correct,but hide the Qantas maintainance heading and it could be any work place in Aussie.
Ive seen it many a time and can pick a new worker who doesnt want to work but be a boss of some type ,and yes ,they bull**** their way and suffer a bit of hairloss from their head banging under the bosses desk.
The part that facinates me is that the exprienced management cant see through them,and give a guy who does his work etc without a word.A lot of these are happy doing just that and have never given it a thought of a higher position