Dim-creep

Our boss at MegaCorp is not a Dim. Nowhere near it. He is, however, suffering from a severe case of Dim-creep.

A key part of inspiring confidence in others is showing it in yourself and your actions, and indeed in your subordinates and their actions. This is all basic, non-Dim stuff. In the Dimcloud we expect this level of thinking (or in fact, any thinking at all) to be notable by its absence. What smarts is when confirmed, PhD-level non-Dims forget their arse and undermine months of confident prediction, persuasion and planning with a single outburst of utter, blinking stupidity.

If one is designing a better aircraft, one does not tell potential passengers that they should only fly a third of their journey on it, just in case we made a mistake. Those passengers will likely decide not to fly at all, on the grounds that a lack of confidence from the designers might be an outwards indication of a lack of competence.

You either design an aircraft or you don't. You don't design an aircraft and then fill it with bits from the last aircraft, particularly when the last aircraft is known to be a little bit broken, and will definitely stop flying in a few months anyway.

Ceaseless prevarication and incurable indecisiveness are both Dim qualities, and it's desperately sad to see them so completely embodied in one of our immediate superiors. He'll earn his Dimlord stripes early at this rate.