True, <i>in the long run.</i>  But what usually happens is that the new hire takes a week or a month to decide that a process is stupid and wasteful, and shoots his&#x2F;her mouth off about what a stupid process it is, and burns a bunch of bridges.<p>Maybe this should be a rule of thumb:  Don&#x27;t criticize anything during your first six months.  If it&#x27;s your first job out of school, don&#x27;t criticize anything during your first year.  Learn what&#x27;s really going on, and why things are the way they are.  <i>Then</i> you can criticize.