[llamajams]

Well; Feature X is about to be released and the industry just invented feature Y and its all the rage and if its not in the pipeline the shareholders and the critiques get mad. So, The boffins decide that the company needs to get on it ASAP and cannibalize feature X team to make feature Y team and the "best" need to get on that team otherwise their career suffers. So the unwilling/incapable are left to sort out the kinks. They are divided into two camps which play a 0 sum game to get feature X released. Losing is bad for the losers, so you either resign t being an asshole for the benefit of the product or you try to not get your teammates fired at the detriment of the product. Maybe you try both and see. Either way youre resource starved and dammned either way. Maybe noone cares if you caught a bug before release. Maybe the guys that catch the bugs at the end of the line get praise and attention. Maybe everyone just gets mad that youre holding up the release, cuz the boffins wanted it done yesterday. After a while youre in a meeting debating whether an issue is not an issue and after an hour everyone has somewhere to be and one camp insists that if you hold it just so its not really an issue, and some think that this is a very rare edge case and would never happen IRL. one guy thinks this isnt a bug at all the user just has bad expectations. Others are tired of having to speak up and just wanna get on with their day because there might be a feature Z team and even though you got passed up for Y , youre actually a really god fit for Z s you better shut up if you wanna leave this mess. The guy who would have stopped this train rage quit 6 months ago. Finally everyone just calls it a non-issue and full send. Six months after the release there is an issue and now the regulators are coming, and you feel very vindicated that this was an issue but you didnt speak up , but secretly told Gary at lunch that this is gonna come back. Gary was in the meeting with the VP and the regulator ad made an off hand comment to the VP that you actually spotted this way back. And now the VP is mad that this issue could have been stopped, and now they think youre a pansy for staying mum , in fact this is unethical behavior and so youre off Z team and back to X. So you figure you never wanna be in this mess gain and switch to a diff org/company/ rage quit.

Rinse. Repeat.