[rhelz]

Certainly. The problem is, not all cost savings are welcome. What if your manager is halfway through a 2-year, $5 million project----which you made obsolete in 2 days using a swig + lua + a 1-page long script?

Is your manager going to go to his manager, and tell him he just wasted $2.5 million? When his manager has promised him a big bonus if he completes the project by the end of the year?

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I've seen--very understandably--comments like "there's no way that could ever happen" or "this guy must be very hard to work with in other ways." Not so.

The problem, was a culture clash between how west coast/silicon valley software companies work, and how east-coast companies work. Not that one is necessarily better or worse than other, but they are very different and if you are slow to pick up on that (as I unfortunately was) its very easy to get burnt.

[catlifeonmars]

I’m so sorry this happened to you. I’ve been extremely fortunate so far, and if this had happened to me early on in my career I would have been absolutely crushed.

[rhelz]

Thanks. It does help with the crushing, though, that apparently somebody got it to work--thereby proving, at the very least, I wasn't crazy.