I’m just keeping my head down and continuing to work and stockpile. Boomers have destroyed traditional workplace hierarchies, and the Zoomers are filling the power vacuum with trivial crap from the top down. “Paying your dues” is a pipe dream anymore. I’ve seen too many useless people ascend to leadership and stay there.
The 'Peter Principle' at work, or, "...people in a hierarchy tend to rise to 'a level of respective incompetence".
Sometimes, I wonder if it doesn't have something to do with the reduced oxygen levels experienced by people as they climb the ladder. At the higher rung levels, the lower oxygen level affects their ability to think in a rational manner.
And good people dismissed, as happened at my workplace yesterday. The 50-something manager got dismissed in favor of a guy in his 30s with less than half the real world experience.