Persistence maketh the career

MegaCorp rewards persistence, regardless of what is being persisted with.

For example, we have Geoffrey Dimhollow. Saddled with a difficult problem to solve, and an awful product with which to solve it, he persists; until someone else is dumb enough to stick their head above the parapet and solve it for him. Luckily, our boss is savvy enough to duck that flaming turd missile.

Right.

So, after we've been struggling along for a couple of years, performing the software equivalent of carefully pushing a turd - no longer flaming, but still somewhat ripe - up a steep hill with a piece of wet string, we get to a point where he has a different problem to solve. Naturally, we'd not be stupid enough to fall for it twice.

Right.

So, when trying to solve his problem again, we're pushing back harder. Dimhollow persists, and wheedles, and suggests, and regrets, and postulates, and insinuates, and persists some more. Eventually, the sheer weight of unqualified, uneducated, unmitigated, shameless irrelevant neverending crap will tip the balance. Or so he thinks. For we have strong leadership, so we won't be beaten this time.

Right.

In the hands of sages, persistence - tempered with wisdom - is a powerful, wonderful thing. In the hands of Dimhollow, persistence is the tool by which stupid ideas are made manifest by the work of others, to the benefit of noone except his own career. He won't get far. MegaCorp knows where its own interests lie.

Right.