Or there was a political battle over who would wear the watch, and whose budget it would come out of. And the only person who owned a watch lived in a different time zone and didn't want to change it to a timezone they didn't live in.
It's unbelievable how many expensive reports we generated that said "fixing X would result in $Y revenue" and the business response would be "well, that would piss off Ryan so we can't do that".
Hard work though, fairly tough maximum caps in terms of pay, and brutal to have to do into retirement -- my knees (or liver) wouldn't last long enough to do it for 30 years.
The Ryans of the world usually respond with "no that's mad, why didn't you alert me sooner? Stop that at once!".
Like our tech director spending millions on Microsoft stuff. Anyone sees that it's not really the most sane investments to be making. But the only way out is to fire the guy, and that's just one step too far.
So the ryan's are untouchable because of politics, they want to keep their scope and budgets. If nobody wants to decrease their budget, no money is saved sadly