Highschool is a weird anomaly really, inside there's one set of rules for what's good, what's important, and who's popular. But when you get outside you realize

Highschool is a weird anomaly really, inside there's one set of rules for what's good, what's important, and who's popular. But when you get outside you realize it was all crap. Being popular in high school earns you nothing in real life. Noone outside cares about what was important in high school. Except... Work at a company that has more than a handful of people. Who is the PM, the VP of sales, the product manager? Creative is mad at engineering because they have to redo all the graphics to make room for a new javascirpt dropdown. The tech exec meeting has to be rescheduled because the director of mobile is running a triathlon. Are we going to have a scrum with the SA's and network ops? Maybe promotions occur via, uh, tests and a grading system. Maybe they occur because one VP likes another director. It's a social structure that has no bearing on the world outside of the organization, with it's own internal cliques and language and popularity contests. Dare I say there's a fair amount of bullying involved as well. If you leave to become an independent, you realize it was all crap. I don't think High School is really that much of an anomaly. It's just a collection different sub-organizations and power structure than what you find in other organizations.