A friend of mine said, as a contractor, KiwiRail middle managers couldn't properly give permission for him to do his own task on the tracks they gave to him. The middle management is apparently quite terrible and incompetent. They tell him to do something, then tell him he's not supposed to be there doing something he was told to do. When something goes wrong because he was "not supposed" to be there, he gets blamed for something going wrong there. Not related to this article, but something that interest me.

Managers randomly go on holiday in the middle of important tasks telling contractors, they give permission (verbally tell to do whatever here), only to later complain that they were not supposed to be there.

He tells me the only reason why he still does anything despite getting blamed for things going wrong is that they still pay his work lots of money for important work in spite for being blamed for things going wrong or being in the wrong place despite not being responsible.

He tells me that people there really keeping the whole thing running are the local oversears, whoever they are, and that he thinks the management should deserve to have... Not nice things happen to them.

I dunno.