The planet Golgafrincham creatively solved the problem of middle managers: it blasted them in to space.
Golgafrinchan Telephone Sanitisers, Management Consultants and Marketing executives were persuaded that the planet was under threat from an enormous mutant star goat. The useless third of their population was then packed in Ark spaceships and sent to an insignificant planet. http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/guide/golgafrincham.shtml