[venomsnake]

A Googler I know claims he spends roughly 90% of his time playing politics and writing long cover your ass emails. Ditto people in other big places. Or just wait for stuff - like waste a month waiting for ops to give access to something.

If you are in a small company - you can spend half your time playing diablo and still be more productive. I also know people that bust their asses trying to do all the work, but have no idea how to get fired the entrenched politicians.

[garry]

The latter example happens all the time to good people. Doing a lot of work in most organizations is anti-correlated with success because the only thing that happens is that even more work is pushed your way.

[sjg007]

Priorities can change and packaging is an important tool for communicating. This happens in all companies at all levels.