Oh yeah, I've come to realise that the people at the top are just as bad. I was at a place where "consultants decided" that the company's two backbone systems should be replaced with off-the-shelf solutions. Very obviously a resume-padding project from the CIO who was in their first large company job, but which would have almost certainly crippled the company if it went ahead.

Thankfully the business and finance people at the company decided it would be an expensive and stupid idea it was shut down.