Marketing People
I worked at this online company where we used to have a bunch of hard working programmers. While directly working with them I knew how hard they really worked. We would always come in early and stay late. We would have to come in late at night oftentimes due to server issues, etc. The same thing went for weekends.
Then, we had the marketing group. Over time by becoming friendly with one of the girls in the Marketing department I found out what a real mess it was. These people would spend their days fighting with one another regarding boss favoritism along with whom made more money than the next guy. At the end of the day, basically our company website ran itself through good search engine results. The Marketing team, which was as large as our programming team, did little to nothing as far as bringing us new business.
The Director of Marketing had recently fired one of the hardest working people I had ever met. She was a very hard driving person. She landed a great deal with a major airline to use our services on their website. In return she received monthly commissions. My friend told me.. behind the scenes, the Director of Marketing seeing how this woman was making more money than him, due to this huge contract, came up with the bright idea to fire the poor woman. In his contract he had a clause that stated he would receive all commissions due to his staff if they would leave the department. So, using his great forthought he decided it would be better to bad mouth her to the President and fire her rather than have her get more clients for the company (which he recieved a partial commission on !!! ) .
I have since left the company and recently checked on the county tax rolls in my area for the Director. He recently bought a new house assessed at over 1.3 million dollars.
I wonder what happened to the poor woman who was fired. Probably eeking out a paycheck at some crappy company like the rest of us.