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== Real Life ==
* As companies grow larger and labor becomes more divided and bureaucratized, new positions and titles begin to emerge that often don't seem to indicate, what, if anything, their office holders are responsible for. Examples include obtusely titled positions like "assistant deputy senior vice president of internal affairs" or, conversely, positions where titles are so short they could mean just about anything,
** Case in point CEOs and executives of companies specializing in a certain niche, such as video games. Strauss Zelnick of [[Take-Two Interactive]] for one was accused of being a mere corporate suit without any video game experience at all, especially in light of the recent controversies surrounding ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]''{{'}}s presumed decline in quality and series direction.
* "Do-nothing Congress" is a common phrase in American politics, usually used by Presidents, presidential candidates or the minority party in Congress; the charge was most famously levied by [[Harry S. Truman]] at the [[wikipedia:80th United States Congress|80th Congress]] in 1948 and by the Democrats against the [[wikipedia:109th United States Congress|109th Congress]] in 2006. Often it's an empty talking point that means "This Congress has done nothing I asked them to do," but occasionally it's used accurately. When the U.S. Senate or House of Representatives is closely divided between parties (and sometimes even when it's not), it's entirely possible that very few substantial bills will get passed. Likewise, when one political party strongly dominates the presidency and one house of Congress, the remaining house will very rarely get anything done, and even that only grudgingly.
** This might not technically count, since it's actually a ''design feature'' of the U.S. system.
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* [[Truth in Television]]: radio presenters do this frequently. [[Justified Trope|But this is because many of them are]] [[Insistent Terminology|"swing" jocks]] (cover presenters) or have other jobs ([[Trope Codifier]]: Sharon Komrska at Rutland Radio in Stamford, England).
* Certain artists who seem to take an ''extremely'' long break between albums can be accused of this. With the [[Development Hell]] and the [[Artist Disillusionment]] and all.
* A German chapter of the Mongols Motorcycle Club is at best nominally an "outlaw motorcycle club", as it is more of a crime syndicate that cashed in on the United States-based biker gang's notoriety rather than a typical band of marauding bikers. Mongols MC Bremen members ''drive around in cars'', and in an ironic twist, the gang's former president [[What an Idiot!|accidentally killed himself]] whilst trying to ride a motorcycle in an attempt to further live up to their designation.
* The practice of "[[wikipedia:Start and park|start-and-park]]" in certain segments of auto racing especially [[NASCAR]], where some teams nominally participate in a race for a few laps then pull over shortly after just so they can [[Money, Dear Boy|get the prize money]] as even back-of-the-pack finishes still yield high payouts and that fielding an entry even for single race can get costly due to maintenance and spare parts expenses.
* [[You Bastard|You're embodying this trope if you're browsing this very wiki especially if you're supposed to be working right now.]]
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