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I think person meant they can't think by "theft of executive function". You just put out the fire in front of u (or what u are told I guess).

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It is the same thing at a different scale. It shows they are having trouble establishing the work boundaries or lacking a clout to push things back. If there is no leverage to do either of those, it is just a bad job and one needs to move on.

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