Heh. These folks would fit right in at the university I work at. The dumber you are the higher up you can go in some departments.
The IT group I used to work for on campus was at one time a cool place to work. I would be contracted out to different units to help them out with their needs. Met some great people as well as some people too stupid to be alive. However management started changing from a cool group of people to petty and juvenile group. They would bring in new people in who were making close to what I made without having any real experience. Then I would have to go clean up after them. Another issue was the capreciousness with procedures. If you were in the golden child group, you got special privilages. If not, you didn't get squat. Luckily I was in the golden child group, but friends of mine weren't and that crap they received was unjustified. I could easily go on but you get the picture.
Thankfully a group of us left to go work directly for the unit we were contracted out to at the time and things have been mucho better. Not to say that there isn't crap in the current job, but it's nothing compared to the previous gig.