>I'm curious - what were the devs doing with their time, if feature improvements were constantly being vetoed? Yeah it was a really weird culture, there was de

>I'm curious - what were the devs doing with their time, if feature improvements were constantly being vetoed? Yeah it was a really weird culture, there was definitely some quiet time where I would propose a product improvement but still get no traction. Eg the product website was really embarrassingly 90s, they would let us A/B test customer deployments but not their own site. There also was a lot of repetitive content scraping tasks that should have been improved and resulted in excessive pager duty (hard to explain but think fragile regexes that parsed customer HTML). That was the last straw for me, I'll do pager duty but not every night just because the PHB is a fool. They mostly burned our time on trivial consultingware requests instead of improving the core product. I eventually started sneaking core enhancements in by padding out the customer work and just not telling anyone. This is the same PHB who threatened to fire me because I had to rush my partner to hospital with a concussion. Wonderful human being that.