Your story is very similar to mine. It's not that the job itself was grueling by most standards, but the little work that was involved was unreasonably difficu

Your story is very similar to mine. It's not that the job itself was grueling by most standards, but the little work that was involved was unreasonably difficult because so many wrong things were done and no one was interested in solving systemic issues. Tasks that should have been very simple were monumental because of colossally bad decisions. I of course had some time to address a few long standing issues, but like at most companies management didn't see the value in scheduling these fixes in relation to features they wanted churned out, so most of that just got put on the sidelines. This company's solution to inefficiencies was to hire more programmers. Of course that's not how management sees it; when the business is booming, hiring lots of people is just seen as a necessary evil that doesn't need to be tied to specific needs. I realized that life was too short to deal with that shit for years, so I walked. In another time, I might have put up with it because there'd be people to see and things to do. Now with my usual conventions and meetups being indefinitely closed, paranoid friends and family members, and some challenges with traveling, I don't have the motivation to put up with corporate BS anymore.