Organizational Inertia

I know an Assistant Vice President ("AVP") at my workplace. She works in an office with a door. One day she was sitting at her desk and a work-crew visits, offering to paint one of her walls with an accent color (the other walls are beige). She accepts, removes items from her wall, temporarily vacates her office, and returns to find two walls painted.

She is not bothered by the two painted walls. She was not bothered by the unpainted walls. She has no strong opinion on the matter.

A few days later the work-crew returns. A mistake has been made, they explain: only vice-presidents and above, not AVPs, may have more than one accent wall. She temporarily vacates her office and returns to find one of the accent walls repainted in beige.