I was sitting in this meeting yesterday and realized that there were four managers for the two people actually doing the work. All the managers individually said "Keep me in the loop" even though by the org chart, only one was the manager of the guys actually doing the work. Work has become Office Space - four managers for a project with two guys doing all the work.
I came to work at this place because it was lean. Only a few levels of people from the bottom to the top. Now it's been morphed into some 'classic' textbook example of an organization (on paper), and a monster in real life. I'm about to send this into the Daily WTF and see if they post it - they may not because it's almost too hard to believe.
I now know why all those guys in the WTFs are saying they left the place at the end of their story. This has already passed "funny if it weren't so sad", and is quickly approaching "a death march to match WWII". Forget this being a 'nice' place to work... about the only nice thing about it is the time I get to do the actual work - which could be done anywhere. Nope, this place is in the dumpster.
I wonder if they'll be able to pull out... and if I'll be around to see it.