You’d be surprised at how long truly incompetent managers, even senior managers, survive. In large companies it appears to be quite easy to keep your job and still be an atrocious manager. I have worked with businesses in pretty much every industry sector except the public sector and come across really bad (and, to be fair, some really good) managers in all of them.
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Case in point:
The UK’s biggest business group has admitted it hired “culturally toxic” staff and failed to fire people who sexually harassed female colleagues. The CBI said a failure to act allowed a “very small minority” of staff to believe they could get away with harassment or violence against women. The embattled lobby group said it has now dismissed a number of people.
In early April, a number of claims of misconduct and harassment against CBI staff emerged including one allegation of rape at the lobby group’s summer party in 2019. On Friday a second rape allegation emerged, whilst working at one of the CBI’s overseas offices. Both rape allegations are being investigated by the police.
In a letter responding to recommendations by law Fox Williams which was appointed to lead an independent investigation into the lobby group, the CBI admitted to its members:
- It “tried to find resolution in sexual harassment cases when we should have removed those offenders from our business”
- A failure to sack offenders led to a reluctance among women to formalise complaints
- This allowed a “very small minority of staff with regressive - and, in some cases, abhorrent - attitudes towards their female colleagues to feel more assured in their behaviour, and more confident of not being detected”
- It failed to filter out culturally toxic people during the hiring process
Promoted some mangers too quickly “without the necessary prior and ongoing training to protect our cultural values, and to properly react when those values were violated”
- Paid “more attention to competence than to behaviour”
- Failed to properly integrate new staff
The future of the CBI is hanging in the balance and it has suspended its operations until June while it tries to reform its workplace.
Sounds like the '70’s to me … 
The Telegraph quotes Mr Raab as saying he is concerned about “the pressure the job has placed on my young family”.
Mr Raab confirmed to BBC News that he would not seek re-election as the MP for Esher and Walton, which he has represented since 2010 and won with a majority of 2,743 votes in 2019.
His departure from Parliament means the Conservatives will have to find a new candidate for the Surrey constituency - which is a key election target for the Liberal Democrats.
Mr Raab joins a growing number of senior Conservatives deciding not to stand in the next general election, expected in 2024.
Former ministers including Sajid Javid and George Eustice have also announced their intention to leave the House of Commons.
Raab has been Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary and First Secretary of State, Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government), Minister of State (Ministry of Justice), and has been an MP continuously since 6 May 2010.
“Oh how the mighty have fallen” … 