Here are some neat and nasty Darwin award candidates from the world of controls. You can decide which are fictional. A major electrical manufacturer moves most of its operations from a northern state to a southern state. In doing so, it loses many of its good employees, who don't want to encounter a different culture. A major European electrical manufacturer changes the president of its US operation every few years, which means key members of the staff change.
Customers continually find new voices answering their phones.
A financially-troubled small controls maker who has built its business on hardware brings in a new president to fix things. Software-minded, the new guy practically scraps the hardware operation, emphasizing software. The company barely survives, finally tossing him out. A real smart midwestern software company offers a great deal to a computer scientist in a competing firm on the east coast, then gets a rude shock when the eastern company sues. Some of these companies are still around.