Why are middle management so incompetent at holiday and diary management??

[AtW]

Tough sh!t.

Could be worse, I could be your manager.

It could have been even more worse - you could have been his father

[Freamon]

Just wondering after an unbelieveable experience of it.......

They are doing it deliberately just to annoy you as much as possible.

[NickFitz]

Or they could be there due to the peter principle

"You must spread..." etc. +1. I had that book out of the library before I was 16; my father suggested it when he saw me reading Stephen Potter. It's conditioned my perception of management ever since, because it's correct