This was a good read. You know, that place for all of it’s faults, had some of the best people that I have ever worked with. Even if some of them were not worth the cost of the paper that their paycheck was printed on.

I strongly believed then, and do now, that what you speak of in this article was the downfall of that company. The big telco people were not only a horrendous waste of time, money and resources, but they also had a naive view on how a company, like this one, worked. And the sad part, I doubt the words steady growth plan ever entered their brains for a nanosecond.

Oh and your coversation (albeit hypothetical) is the watered down (I never got close to your level) version of the same thing that I recieved when I was there. Remind me to tell you about the 3 times I was told that I was too valuable to leave tech support.

Hope all is well my friend.

Ryan

Hope you are doing well.

Quickly if you would, what ended up happening with the company and your role within it?

Sounds like Sunshine Capitalism to me.

Believing in your own success creates confirmation bias and people who were previously objective critical thinkers, start to believe they have figured it all out, based on the feedback their success provides.

My experience of them has been limited. But such as it is, some of the stereotypes are absurd. Many corporations are more bureaucratic,arbitrary inefficient, and dull-witted than any government agency.

(Of course, it’s because most of them operate out of a manual written by the state, to begin with..)