I love your indignation; it validates the way I've felt about various things over the years, so you deserve some explanation of the culture and my thought proce

I love your indignation; it validates the way I've felt about various things over the years, so you deserve some explanation of the culture and my thought process: I'm reminded of the investing maxim that "markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent." I'm a military officer who's not yet senior enough to be vested for retirement benefits, but senior enough to be within striking distance of vesting after 15+ years ("golden handcuffs"). The career model for officers is also "up or out" and every year counts (i.e. one needs to remain within the top 50% of performers who've also devoted the last 15+ years of their lives to this). If it takes the bureaucracy longer than a year to change something stupid, I need to be very thoughtful about what stupid things I choose to protest with disobedience. Furthermore, as someone who works in the IT part of the organization, saying that I can't figure out a way to stay logged into Teams would be an especially bad look. A significant part of my job at the time was helping non-IT people to find solutions for stupid IT problems while advocating for changes to the IT people above me.