I’m a software developer contractor. By the nature of my work I often have to suffer the “corporate fog”, a sort of induced stupor caused by multiple layers of

I’m a software developer contractor. By the nature of my work I often have to suffer the “corporate fog”, a sort of induced stupor caused by multiple layers of middle management, generic performance objectives, knowledge loss due to churn and ineffective information management. This drama sounds like a typical corporate misunderstanding: engineers follow technical specs, no written requirements, management doesn’t understand the subtleties - nor do their care for them and they’re busily enough already with all the other tugs. Eventually shit hits home, PR digests and translates into requirements, management gropes along in the fog. There’s no malice, it’s just a large org, and there’s no SJ that agonizes over the details (and even then, he also let big fuckups slip past, remember the iPhone antenna issue)