Upper management treats employees like sacrificial pawns with regard to staffing decisions (I understand my position and I am okay being a pawn but not a sacrificial pawn). Upper management does not understand nuances of departments that they manage. By upper management, I am indicating the Information Technology management in Alpharetta. Upper management in Information Technology company-wide has a philosophy that they do not like licensed software irregardless of what it does or how important that software is to each department.