Completely agree. I'm basically in the same situation at work now. I got islanded on a side project (systems dashboard) and am completely inessential except f

Completely agree. I'm basically in the same situation at work now. I got islanded on a side project (systems dashboard) and am completely inessential except for political reasons, and for a while I had the worst kind of supervisor -- someone superficially nice but constantly changes the sw contract on you so you keep getting screwed over (it's awful getting the "hi friend" greeting every morning while having a knife stabbed into your career). Now he stepped down from group leader and got replaced by an management hired from the outside that is injecting chaos and has poor Technical judgement. Meanwhile the codebase that's underneath me is spiralling out of control, has very few tests, etc. I'm only sticking around in the hopes of transferring to another department where my friend is the group leader.