[Sohcahtoa82]

Yup. That was me ~2 years ago at a well-known Fortune 500 company.

I was on an Cloud and Application Security team that was almost essentially a skunk works, but we were a great team and got a lot of good shit done. But then the actual corporate cybersecurity team got their shit together, started enacting and enforcing policies, and took over all our job functions. During this transition, my direct manager quit, and so everyone on the team was reporting to his manager, who really didn't know what the team did.

At that point, there was basically nothing for us to do, working for a manager that didn't know what we should be doing either way. But we still had to appear to be doing something.

Shortly into this, our best two people left, and about a year later, I left as well. All of us for the same reason: Security often has interesting work to do, and we had none of it anymore. Our salaries were also wayyyy below market, but that's another thing entirely.