Quote Originally Posted by Kohashi View Post
For the exact same reason why hard-working people hardly ever get promoted. They bring a lot of money for the company with minimal or 0 investment which means a huge win for them.
Exactly.

In fact, It's actually worse than that.

Whilst can only 'talk' in terms of my own experience, it goes beyond "hard-working people hardly ever getting promoted" in this day and age. In my workplace it has become commonplace for a member of staff retiring/moving to another job/leaving for some reason being replaced by someone of a lower pay grade. For example, our Band 4 medical secretary retired recently. They were replaced with a Band 3 medical secretary who is, for all intents and purposes, doing the same job as the person they replaced but being paid rather a lot less for it.
And that's if they bother replacing the person who left at all. Because they'll often find a reason/excuse not to, and distribute the workload of the person who left amongst the remaining staff. It is utterly dishonest and lacks any demonstrative value whatsoever since it utterly destroys staff morale, but the numbers sure look good on paper and in the end, keeping the bean-counters happy is, sadly, always the highest priority.

And needless to say, the money saved from said employee leaving never finds it's way back into the bank account of the service itself.