While this is true, it's also true that the people who are doing the less-than-glamorous grunt work are often unrecognized by management (which arguably is a ma

While this is true, it's also true that the people who are doing the less-than-glamorous grunt work are often unrecognized by management (which arguably is a management problem). I remember being at an all-hands company meeting years ago and listening carefully to what the people who were given the top awards got them for, and about three in a row were for diving in, working nights and weekends to come up with emergency fixes to save projects or products that had gone seriously wrong, and these were different projects. It was so blatant then even some senior managers finally noticed "Hey, we have a problem".