Great list. I'd add on to that: 1. Employee self-assessment forms - We don't need HR to make to my manager make me tell him what I think I do well/poorly. Bus

Great list. I'd add on to that: 1. Employee self-assessment forms - We don't need HR to make to my manager make me tell him what I think I do well/poorly. Business jargon is no substitute for 2-way honest conversation. 2. Managers that try to shoehorn every problem into one solution. 3. Being restricted to technology choices that your manager knows. 4. Being the single go-to guy for everything in your department because no one else is interested enough to learn things on their own - Want me to setup your enterprise Java portal while fixing IE CSS/Javascript bugs that our web developers couldn't figure out while debugging a WordPress plugin for another department? Sure, you want fries with that order, sir?