And this is why the tech industry management is so hated. The OP gave an ethical example but it happened to me in a different way. I was being pushed to releas

And this is why the tech industry management is so hated. The OP gave an ethical example but it happened to me in a different way. I was being pushed to release a small feature during the holiday season. While we were on track to release it, the CTO announced that we should not release anything during the holidays so that customers can take a breather and that our company is not responsible for their failures. So, we waited to roll it out until after the holiday since the CTO himself asked us to exercise caution. Come review time, my manager berates me for not releasing fast and for "constantly missing deadlines". I asked why the CTO is asking us to exercise caution and why he is asking us to push. I asked what would happen if there were to be an outage during the holidays. This infuriated the manager and he had it for me for a long time. And he was only furious because I caught his BS. The only reason he wanted me to go faster was to make himself look good. But if something were to fail and if the CTO checked, I was to be the fall guy. Aside from the "all managers are not like this" trope, can anyone tell me why engineers should trust such managers when they play such games with us?