[bostonOU]

I worked for a Woman/Minority Owned Small Business. Believe me, it was the ol'govt'boys network, just at a smaller scale. We had a lady who's job description basically boiled down to being something pretty for our money/government guy to look at.

After $17 million-ish in projects, we produced nothing but a bunch of 'research'. And trust me, there were a few of us developers that really tried to do something useful. Management had no interest in what was produced other than more proposals to get more money. Your bonus/promotion was totally tied to how many proposals you wrote (and this was a software company). Your bonus/promotion had zero to do with how much or how well you wrote code.