[ThrowawayR2]

The Dilbert comic strip has been running since 1989 and was about the life of engineers at something that nominally looked like a tech company and, even then, people were remarking that a lot of its humor worked because it was true. If anyone graduated without the awareness that the working world wasn't going to necessarily be all rainbows and unicorns, they weren't paying attention.

[Apocryphon]

And yet people are willing to give a lot of credence to pointy headed bosses, as many discussions on HN will attest to.