[goldcd]

I'd worry working anywhere where being "conscientious" isn't appreciated. From another thread I've got it stuck in my head that there is "broccoli" and "ice cream" work - and yes, if everybody concludes that WP work is "broccoli", somebody needs to eat it, and for now it's the person who can eat it the fastest is going to get landed with it.. ..then ask them what their ice cream is and make sure they get some. And maybe most importantly, be up-front that it's broccoli and that nobody likes it - but it's important.

[gaius]

All managers see is that the work is getting done and no one is rocking the boat, they have zero incentive to look under the covers and see what’s really happening, then one day their unknown crucial engineer walks and they wonder why none of the self-promoting rockstars can do the bread-and-butter work, and what exactly those guys have been doing all this time.