Sadly I have to deal with it too often. Most recent was we acquired a decent size company, ended up with about 700 folks after we lopped the head of the beast.

One group had a pretty vocal engineer, constantly whining and complaining about this tool or that tool. He favorite was one that only about 4 people used and cost us about $250K a year, not to mention the back end for the 20TB of Oracle is kept. I guess he wasn't paying attention but 2 of the other users left to other groups and stopped using the tool, 1 user left to greener pastures, that left 1 engineering using this painfully expensive data cruncher. About 2 weeks before Christmas he went on an absolute saying how he absolutely couldn't do his job unless there were improvements to that tool. We needed to dump more money into this thing just for him.

The big boys were nice enough to pay him for Christmas. On the 2nd, the 3 folks remaining in his group were let go. HR said it was a cost saving RIF, but out of 20,000 employees only 1 tiny group saw the axe.