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我的伴侣在为一家大型科技公司（五巨头之一）不知疲倦地工作了 15 年后被解雇了。她可能是过去十年里在这个行业中生存下来并与之抗争过的、最有韧性、最有成就感、最受欢迎的人，虽然我明显带有偏见，但她所有的同事肯定都会同意这一点。她从一名普通员工成长为管理 30 多人的领导，几乎没时间休假，因为她总是忙于工作。她被解雇并非因为她能力不足、工作失败或不适应公司，而是纯粹出于仓促的预算削减（预算已经敲定，又重新敲定，然后他们才意识到仍然不够）。在这种特定情况下，导致削减预算的原因并非人工智能的压倒性崛起或为了给数据中心增加更多算力，而是非常明显地源于两级以上管理层长期存在的失败。其中一个人在过去几年里持续制造混乱，最终导致了这场死胡同式的灾难。这一切的中心人物是一位年长的男性，他做出的每一个决定都站在了错误的一边。我只听说了一些事情（这真的与我无关），但他的选择一直充满混乱且不明智。他从其他失败的岗位调任到这个职位，将那里的混乱抛诸脑后，而在过去的两年里，他又在这个新职位上制造了另一场灾难。我的问题，也是这篇文章的重点（我明白这完全是哲学层面的）：这些人是如何在自己造成的灾难中持续生存下来的？尽管她的整个团队（30多人）都因此被解雇了，但将这一切搞砸的人却仍在公司里继续任职？他们甚至让她最近每周分批解雇并告知她团队中的大部分人，然后才告诉她，她自己也“完成”了。我以前也曾在一家五巨头公司工作过，但现在已经自主创业十多年了，所以可能我已经脱节太久，无法理解，但我就是不明白为什么有些人总能在他们造成的混乱中保持清白，而代价却是其他人。我以前经常从在谷歌工作的朋友那里听到类似的事情，但这似乎在其他地方也普遍存在。他们显然不是聪明人，这是因为他们的冷酷无情吗？他们是否意识到了自己正走向灾难，并提前做好了计划？这对我来说是个谜，而且允许这样的人继续下去，对这些公司来说肯定是不健康的。

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My partner was let go after 15 years working tirelessly for one of the big five. She's probably the most resilient, rewarded and liked person that has survived and fought through this part of the business in the past decade, and while I am clearly biased, all her colleagues would most certainly agree. She's moved from IC to managing over 30 people and barely manages to use vacation days because she's always working.She was let go not because of her own incompetence, failure or not fitting in, but purely out of rushed budget cuts (budgets were finalized, finalized again, and then they realized it's still not good enough).The reason for those cuts, in this particular instance, was not the overwhelming rise of AI and/or getting more firing power for data centers, it was very clearly a long-visible path of failure two levels above, where one particular person continued to wreak havoc up over the past few years, and, ultimately, caused this cul-de-sac disaster.The person at the center of this all is an older dude who consistenty has been on the wrong side of any decision he's made. I've only heard of a few things as it is (literally) none of my business, but it's been nothing but chaotic and ill-advised choices. He moved into this role from failing elsewhere, leaving the chaos there behind him, and over the past two years, now has caused yet another disaster in this new role.My question is, and sort of the point of this post (which I understand is entirely philosophical): how do these people consistently survive their self-inflicted disasters? While her entire team (30+) has been let go now as a result of it all, the person who ran this into the ground continues onwards in the business?They even made her fire and break the news to most of her team in weekly chunks recently, before telling her she's of course, also done.I used to work for a big five too, but have been self-employed for over a decade now, so I may be too far out to understand, but it just puzzles me how certain people always manage to stay untainted admist the chaos they've caused, at the cost of everyone else. This used to be a thing I've heard over and over again from friends at Google, but it really seems to be very consistent thing elsewhere, too.They're clearly not smart people, is it ruthlessness? Are they aware of the disaster they're navigating into and plan well ahead? It's a mystery to me, and it just can't be healthy for these companies to allow such folks to continue onwards.

HN 提问：为什么公司失败似乎总是惩罚错误的人？