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My reaction to it is sort of a bitter, FML, hollow laughter.

That's just part of the story that taught me that it doesn't matter how much you like your job, or how good you are at doing it, if some rich asshole can buy it and throw it into the garbage--or move it beyond your reach, or give it to a cousin, or alter it beyond recognition. That was the last job that I actually liked.

Subsequent stories have only reinforced the lesson. Those incidents are why, despite the glaring and obvious flaws of labor unions, I support unions for technical skilled labor unconditionally and without hesitation.

It isn't even about money. I really would have liked to be able to tell the boss at my last job that packing the entire development team and test team around the walls of his corner office while everyone takes turns justifying their existence for a total of at least 45 minutes daily, starting at 8:45 AM, is not a "stand-up meeting". It's not even a status meeting. It's a pointless show of dominance.

I would really like to be able to, if not stop, at least discourage such idiotic behavior, rather than just looking for other jobs and rolling the dice yet again on a different manager that might possibly be less like the high priest of a cargo cult. It would have been nice if voicing my concerns did not paint a target on my back.




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