What would happen if all companies decide to eliminate waste?

they would substitute jobs where they are a drag on the economy to lower paying jobs where they are accretive to the economy. GDP would increase, we could have some deflation that would need to be kept track of. Some people would find they had no roll in the economy any more, they could be used as ammunition to further the UBI debate.

InVinoVeritas:

I have a friend who works at FedEx in IT. The work tales he tells me are completely unbelievable. I am convinced that they could fire at least 1/2 of their office staff with no productivity hit. Here are some examples:

1. Obese 400+ lb woman shits herself while waddling across the office floor to the bathroom because she cannot move fast enough. A good 10+ feet of carpet are covered in diarrhea - they must let everyone go early and close the office to get a hazmat crew in and replace all of the carpet.

2. FedEx gives special priority to people with mental disabilities. Man with autism applies for a software development manager role with absolutely zero ability to manage people. My friend's entire team politely suggests he is not a good fit for the role but FedEx hires him anyways. 2 weeks into working the new hire freaks out in a meeting, runs to the corner and crouches, and starts sobbing. He says he cannot handle the pressure and needs isolation to work properly. FedEx allows him to work from home 5 days a week despite being hired to manage a critical team on-site. My friend tells me he is paid $90k+ and does absolutely nothing and cannot be fired due to disability.

3. FedEx is hiring a new manager for my friend's division which involves managing Indian programmers and checking their coding/process. New hire is a sassy black woman with an MBA from University of Phoenix who lied on her resume and has zero applicable knowledge of coding. Upper management decides to give all of her workload to my friend but does not fire her because "daz racist!" and her job consists of forwarding emails from her team to India. She makes $70-80k per year.

On my friend's team of 15-20 people, about 3-4 people do all the work. These individuals are expected to pick up any and all slack for the remaining workers, who 90% are protected diversity/LGBTQ+/disability status. There is zero pay disparity and promotion only based on tenure/years worked. Many times a year "diversity consultants" are brought in to lecture my friend's office on how to make people feel included and how to better "engage" said diversity hires at the office. Hilariously, when engaged these people respond by doing no work or fucking up royally, which the evil straight white males must then scramble to fix before deadlines.

Speaking of crazy IT stories, my best friend works in Bahrein for a large oil company. His department has 20+ people, of which only two know how to code, him and a guy from India. Everyone else is a hire out of sheer nepotism. Son of/relative of local nobility. One day the workload was overwhelming so they decided to ask to HR to look for someone that could help and of course the new hires list must include the local nobility and you can guess who was picked for the job.

But yeah we are approaching that level.

interested in what other sources you based your belief on, because you yourself said these stories are unbelievable

I think the woman in #1 deserves a medal - that 10+ feet has to be a skidmark world record.

InVinoVeritas:

I have a friend who works at FedEx in IT. The work tales he tells me are completely unbelievable. I am convinced that they could fire at least 1/2 of their office staff with no productivity hit. Here are some examples:

1. Obese 400+ lb woman shits herself while waddling across the office floor to the bathroom because she cannot move fast enough. A good 10+ feet of carpet are covered in diarrhea - they must let everyone go early and close the office to get a hazmat crew in and replace all of the carpet.

2. FedEx gives special priority to people with mental disabilities. Man with autism applies for a software development manager role with absolutely zero ability to manage people. My friend's entire team politely suggests he is not a good fit for the role but FedEx hires him anyways. 2 weeks into working the new hire freaks out in a meeting, runs to the corner and crouches, and starts sobbing. He says he cannot handle the pressure and needs isolation to work properly. FedEx allows him to work from home 5 days a week despite being hired to manage a critical team on-site. My friend tells me he is paid $90k+ and does absolutely nothing and cannot be fired due to disability.

3. FedEx is hiring a new manager for my friend's division which involves managing Indian programmers and checking their coding/process. New hire is a sassy black woman with an MBA from University of Phoenix who lied on her resume and has zero applicable knowledge of coding. Upper management decides to give all of her workload to my friend but does not fire her because "daz racist!" and her job consists of forwarding emails from her team to India. She makes $70-80k per year.

On my friend's team of 15-20 people, about 3-4 people do all the work. These individuals are expected to pick up any and all slack for the remaining workers, who 90% are protected diversity/LGBTQ+/disability status. There is zero pay disparity and promotion only based on tenure/years worked. Many times a year "diversity consultants" are brought in to lecture my friend's office on how to make people feel included and how to better "engage" said diversity hires at the office. Hilariously, when engaged these people respond by doing no work or fucking up royally, which the evil straight white males must then scramble to fix before deadlines.

If you think that's just Fedex, you are sadly mistaken. This forum is focused on Banking and Consulting. Having worked at 3 F500 companies, I can tell you the level of stupidity and laziness at a lot of places might shock you.

I deal with this every fkin day.

I have zero idea what 90% of workers within F500 human resources do...