The IT Crowd sounds good...
I worked in IT in Slicon Valley for eight years in the 90's and early 2000's. Some of the description on Wikipedia rings true of my experiences: managers who were hired or promoted to their position not because they understood much about computers, but because they had (debatable) people skills - or at least were able to convince their upper management that they did.
One difference is that IT became sort of a rock star in the late 90's, and money flowed very freely into IT budgets due to a popular management conception that IT would make or break a business. One might thing that flush coffers would have made it more enjoyable, but instead it was used wastefully, to buy internal marketing consultants (I kid you not) and decisions to go with expensive vaporware that turned to be quite costly in the long run (as I had warned). I remember when any tech with a pulse would get hired, and sometimes they proved they couldn't do much more than register a pulse on the job.
I had my own personal nickname for one of my bosses: "A mountain of mediocrity", but as it turned out he was one of the better ones. He wasn't smart enough to be duplicitous and evil, you see. But he would promise just about anything to the "user community" and then wonder why it never materialized (technically impossible, you see)...
I was actually relieved when I got laid off in 2002, although my salary has never since equaled that which I was collecting in Silicon Valley IT. Finally after a year of no work and then six months of the IT job from hell (for a company that fired 10% of its workforce every month and was proud of it), I decided I was miserable with the field and retrained to be a CNC Machinist/Programmer.
Hyacinth Bucket? Amusing, but if I ever were to meet a real life version, I'd probably run as fast as I could for the nearest exit and never look back.
