[k310]

Probably not. :-)

I often found that assignments from my boss were to please the fantasies the boss or their boss, who seemed to pay more attention to those fantasies and toys on their desktop than actually getting things done in a solid way for the customer.

On one job, I attended meetings where amazing ideas were dropped off the table because management couldn't see the big picture potential. We were in a market where every vendor had a proprietary database schema, to stymie conversion. A bunch of us proposed giving away an open database schema, and competing in that larger market, which was beneficial to customers, and a meritocracy. Oh no. That would mean that product quality was more important than slick salesmanship.

The boss sued a disgruntled employee for hacking his computer, and after he won, the judgment was "Well, you two work it out". Right.

One director had a mania for "Windows NT is the next great thing" in production systems. Fortunately, I was on the Solaris side. I didn't hang around long enough to hear the success stories (as in throwing chairs, I imagine)