I do not, repeat do not work for a Pointy Haired Boss. I have, however, bumped into them in the past. The memory lives on...

Many jobs worth doing aren't worth doing right; a novelist is foolish to agonize over each word in a shopping list. Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization. A popular Western writer once confessed that when he was paid by the word, the heroes in his books took six bullets to die. When programmers are paid by the line of code, how do you suppose the array X[l . . lOOO] is initialized to zero? (Hint: programmers paid by the speedup initially produce very slow code, and programmers required to execute a certain percentage of branches during testing have a lot of statements of the form if true then. . . 1)
    — Jon Bentley, in Programming Pearls Communications of the ACM February 1986 Volume 29 Number 2