Yep. I got a taste of that in my first gig, where the guy who always attended the "optional" office twice per week ended up getting the high profile project tha

Yep. I got a taste of that in my first gig, where the guy who always attended the "optional" office twice per week ended up getting the high profile project that drives the company, and they didn't even tried to hide it because they switched the team assignments a week before it began.