Don’t want to get semantic with you Tim, but I’m not sure that aloof is the right word here – aloof suggests some sort of elevated station, whereas those who’ve been cursed with working in the public service, know that management tend to be plain hopeless, but don’t know it. Perhaps a sideways sort of word, like the way that crabs scuttle and shuffle Stupid doesn’t know it’s stupid, and so damn stupid they think they’re frightfully clever revealing their ineptitude when folk out in the real world are actually busy – politicians do it all the time, knaves that they are, and cowardly.