[rudruff]

As a veteran, I have seen this in a lot of places. What usually creates the situation is a large organization with a mid-level manager entrusted to enforce a rule they don't really have any control over.

If that mid-level manager tried to change the rule, they would be viewed as a troublemaker internally and pay the price.

The senior executives have other things to do than look at rules like this, so they aren't aware of it. This goes along until someone sympathetic gets screwed and it becomes public.

The solution is usually articles like this that shame the senior executives into looking into the issue, change it, and we move on to the next injustice.

[rudruff]

As a veteran, I have seen this in a lot of places. What usually creates the situation is a large organization with a mid-level manager entrusted to enforce a rule they don't really have any control over.

If that mid-level manager tried to change the rule, they would be viewed as a troublemaker internally and pay the price.

The senior executives have other things to do than look at rules like this, so they aren't aware of it. This goes along until someone sympathetic gets screwed and it becomes public.

The solution is usually articles like this that shame the senior executives into looking into the issue, change it, and we move on to the next injustice.