[quote=@The book of bad juju]
2. She's under a long, complicated and torturous chain of command that involves so many flimsy [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P_AnvUIvJs]executive[/url] positions made for jumped up little despots clutching at whatever power they can grasp that [u]she's under pretty much everyone's nominal command[/u]. In practice, this means she can do whatever she really feels like doing and pass the buck off onto somebody else.
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Well, Maria technically IS a jumped up little despot, and thus will most likely order her around.