• Yet again, I think I've either met most of these or almost certainly will in the future.

    My particular favourite: the accountant. As a Management Accountant my training goes way beyond accountancy and I understand value and other concepts past "cost".  Sadly, I have to work with traditional accountants more than you will ever have to, most often to despair!

    My current organisation is pretty good, probably being an IT company (and my boss is also from a management accounting background) but where I worked last, everything was about cost!  DO NOT order notebooks - use scrap paper stapled together; DO NOT damage your bin liner - they cost too much over several hundred bins; POST-IT notes are banned!  Seriously... sometimes I was amazed we got free coffee.