My company got acquired by another company and it is amazing to see how many people they have to do a job....badly. What used to be a third of one person's job is 3 people's jobs. When it was one person they were an invaluable resource and absolutely crushed their work because they loved the autonomy and opportunity to improve their skills. They were so good that if that person had just been told they would do the same work for the larger company, they would have been able to either do it all or maybe train up one support person.

Instead there is a department of people and they're all clearly bored, trying to look important and generally incompetent (being completely hamstrung doesn't exactly attract & retain good people). They're all completely unable to do something unilaterally without consulting the others which leads to endless meetings and silly politics. And the company seems too dumb to understand that they could have paid one person triple what each person in the department makes, more than halved their salary costs and it would be a well oiled machine. Instead they have departments of poorly compensated, poorly qualified, poorly motivated tweedle dees and tweedle dumbs debating about immaterial garbage while doing nothing.

Not surprisingly the person who used to do all that work is now getting paid more than double by a different company. And before you ask, no this isn't a specific example but one repeated dozens of times over across a single organization. Quite the stark contrast.