I went back to do my master's degree after I had been working as a programmer for about 10 years, so I knew my way around corporate (dys)function by then. I ha

I went back to do my master's degree after I had been working as a programmer for about 10 years, so I knew my way around corporate (dys)function by then. I had a professor who had spent his entire career in academia, but who had grown up under communist rule in (I believe) Czechoslovakia. He would often go on tangents about how horrible communist government was and give examples of their lunacy. I was struck that every example he gave was something I had actually seen happen in a corporate setting in my then ten years of employment. One example he gave was that the communist rulers would draft five-year plans, accomplish none of it, and then go back and change the wording of the plans to make it look like they had accomplished everything. I had literally been through that exact same dog-and-pony show at my job that day.