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by eikenberry 15 hours ago
Easy peasy yet still impossible for them to do as R&D doesn't add to the bottom line, it is a cost center.
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Easey peasy was said with a wink, although technically speaking it would be easy -- if they didn't have their heads up their ass.

A dear friend of mine was doing R&D at a startup where management poured on a bunch of low-level management work that took him away from his joy, which was developing new tools and approaches to solving customer problems. He left, and went to another gig that promised him complete freedom to invent and discover. That job is at a Fortune 500 company that is slowly starting to pull its head out of its ass.