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* In ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' the Dwarven Nobility tend to operate like this. Once installed in the luscious and expensive rooms that they demand to have, they will occasionally make other demands, such as "build 2 metal chairs" or "I want a glass window in my room". They will make demands even if the fort lacks the necessary resources to fulfill these demands, such as sand for making glass or coal for smelting metal. They can also order the guards to dispense justice should their demands be ignored. However, they will often order justice to be delivered upon dwarves who could not possibly do anything wrong, simply because it was not their job.
** And that's why players are quite inventive in devising "accidental" ways to off nobles.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': The Administratum is a VastBureaucracy on a galactic scale, and as you can imagine, attracts its share of incompetents, jobsworths and other drones. Planets are lost due to rounding errors, memos from departments that have been forgotten are still circulating, tithes are demanded from systems that no longer exist or were conquered millennia ago, and many positions are hereditary.

Usually in a work setting that isn't an office, right at the coalface of an industry or profession, there will be an executive administration department, a world away from the hardships of the "Real Work". As a result, [[DeskJockey people who work in Admin]] will be out of touch with the workers and their problems and they won't understand how Admin decisions play out in the trenches. May or may not be expensively decorated while the "real" departments that do the work have to scrape by with spartan furnishings.

Usually in a work setting that isn't an office, right at the coalface of an industry or profession, there will be an Administration department, a world away from the hardships of the "Real Work". As a result, [[DeskJockey people who work in Admin]] will be out of touch with the workers and their problems. May or may not be expensively decorated while the "real" departments have to scrape by with what little cash they have.

TruthInTelevision, obviously. SoldiersAtTheRear is the military equivalent, dealing with soldiers who aren't on the front lines in conflict. ExecutiveMeddling, when stigmatized, stems from similar issues — out-of-touch higher-ups making uninformed, money-grubbing decisions that make life harder for the little guy.

* Similar to ''Dwarf Fortress'', your nobles in ''VideoGame/{{Rimworld}}: Nobility'' will also make demands to have unreasonable plush luxuries -- [[AntiFrustrationFeatures only instead of dispensing self-rightous justice upon random colonists, they will just experience a bad mood due to having unfulfilled expectations]]. And unlike ''Dwarf Fortress'', these demands are in exchange for cool PsychicPowers and for invaluable commercial and political privileges with your planet's resident Imperial faction.

* ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'' has "Mahogany Row", the thickly-carpeted polished woodwork restricted access offices of The Laundry. In a subversion, no-one appears to actually work in these offices, causing the protagonist to wonder if they're actually meant for emergency crisis management when the stars are right and the s**t hits the fan.

* ''Series/TheThickOfIt'' essentially presents the British government as this to the rest of Britain; a bunch of cloistered, out-of-touch technocrats, policy wonks, media-management types and career politicos working in a bunch of nice, expensive glass-walled offices who are almost all both scathingly contemptuous towards and simultaneously slightly afraid of the ordinary people they supposedly serve and represent.

* In the novel ''Mindfogger'', the protagonist worked in a factory that made automotive type batteries. While the "factory floor" was hot and noisy, the "front office" was quite nice and air conditioned. The "factory floor" was male and the "front office" had female lower end staff and male bosses (early 1970's USA). The "front office" also had a number of young high school and college girls who were daughters of the managers working there for the summer.

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Needless to say, {{Truth In Television}}. SoldiersAtTheRear is the military equivalent, dealing with soldiers who aren't on the front lines in conflict. ExecutiveMeddling, when stigmatized, stems from similar issues — out-of-touch higher-ups making uninformed, money-grubbing decisions that make life harder for the little guy.

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* ''Fanfic/ProjectChimeraTheAtticHypothesis'': The Board of Directors. It doesn't help that [[spoiler:they're being killed off one by one.]]

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* ''Film/BrassedOff'': [[spoiler:Compare the literal coalface where the band work to Gloria's building.]]

* ''Literature/QuiteUglyOneMorning'' is also a good example, considering the trope name is derived from medical slang.

* ''Series/TheWire'' is the eponymous example of this. Plus the in-office minigolf...

Needless to say, {{Truth In Television}}. SoldiersAtTheRear is the military equivalent, dealing with soldiers who aren't on the front lines in conflict.

* ''Film/BrassedOff'': [[spoiler: Compare the literal coalface where the band work to Gloria's building.]]

* ''Series/TheThickOfIt'' essentially presents the British government as this to the rest of Britain; a bunch of cloistered, out-of-touch technocrats, policy wonks, media-management types and career politicos working in a bunch of nice, expensive glass-walled offices who are almost all both slightly afraid of and scathingly contemptuous towards the ordinary people they supposedly serve and represent.

* ''Series/TheThickOfIt'' essentially presents the British government as this to the rest of Britain; a bunch of cloistered, out-of-touch technocrats, policy wonks, media-management types and career politicos working in a nice, expensive glass-walled office who are almost all both slightly afraid of and scathingly contemptuous towards the ordinary people they supposedly serve and represent.

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* In ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' the Dwarven Nobility tend to operate like this. Once installed in the luscious and expensive rooms that they demand to have, they will occasionally make other demands, such as "build 2 metal chairs" or "I want a glass window in my room". They will make demands even if the fort lacks the necessary resources to fulfill these demands, such as sand for making glass or coal for smelting metal. They can also order the guards to dispense justice should their demands be ignored. However, they will often order justice to be delivered upon dwarves who could not possibly do anything wrong, simply because it was not their job.

* ''Film/InTheLoop'', the film spin-off from ''Series/TheThickOfIt'' (see below) continues the show's depiction of the British government as basically this to the whole of Britain. It's best illustrated through the contrast between the Minister of International Development foolishly involving himself in grand matters of world-shaking geopolitical intrigue while, back in his home constituency, one of his constituents just wants him to do something about the wall of his office, which is collapsing into his mum's back garden. [[spoiler: This ends up screwing the Minister when his political opponents in the former matter use his complete disinterest in doing anything about the latter matter to bury him in the media.]]

* In ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' the Dwarven Nobility tend to operate like this. Once installed in the luscious and expensive rooms that they demand to have, they will ocassionally make other demands, such as "build 2 metal chairs" or "I want a glass window in my room". They will make demands even if the fort lacks the necessary resources to fulfill these demands, such as sand for making glass or coal for smelting metal. They can also order the guards to dispense justice should their demands be ignored. However, they will often order justice to be delivered upon dwarves who could not possibly do anything wrong, simply because it was not their job.

* ''Series/TheThickOfIt'' essentially presents the British government as this to the rest of Britain; a bunch of cloistered, out-of-touch technocrats, policy wonks and career politicos working in a nice, expensive glass-walled office who are almost all both slightly afraid of and scathingly contemptuous towards the ordinary people they supposedly serve and represent.

* ''Series/TheThickOfIt'' essentially presents the British government as this to the rest of Britain; a bunch of cloistered, out-of-touch technocrats, policy wonks and career politicos working in a nice, expensive glass-walled office who are almost all both completely out-of-touch with and scathingly contemptuous of the ordinary people they supposedly serve and represent.