Been there, still there. My job sometimes requires me to cooperate with 3 large companies that you hear about almost every day. It's ironic that sometimes during restructuring those giants fire competent people. If they would just fire incompetent ones, no "restructuring" would be needed.
Another real-life example:
Last week I was working on some hardware with a systems administrator in a medium-sized company. The internet gateway router only allows per-ip access so I had to use her computer to check something. Of course, she didn't allow me to use her computer by myself. So I said: "Please open
http://www.some-web-server.com/service-check". What did she do? Wait for Internet Explorer to open up the default homepage (google) and then typed in the address I gave her INTO THE SEARCH BAR. For the next 10 minutes she was trying to assure me that's how to surf the web. The sad part is: she wasn't kidding. That's what she really think. And guys, don't be a sexist just because she's a woman. Oh yeah, I forgot, that company sends her to sysadmin courses 2 times per year. Advanced courses. She always fails. When something goes wrong software/hardware wise they always outsource the job. Sysadmin, yeah right.