I wrote another day, that the co-workers are not the friends. Many disagreed. But that’s typical shit. The psycho stories are rare and nobody believes them unle

I wrote another day, that the co-workers are not the friends. Many disagreed. But that’s typical shit. The psycho stories are rare and nobody believes them unless one experiences that in person. A colleague can go from nice sport partner to complete psycho when circumstances change. I got lots of advice from my parents and grandparents about work. I thought, it was some decades old crap. But I was wrong. I naively believed, that going to work and delivering best results is what counts. Wrong!!! That does not count! I was too young and too stupid not to analyze entrenched actors and who’s really in control. My direct manager was not in control, he was a clerk for weird group of people on different levels. That was very funny, because I have great experience in my field. And every project plan I created for a stupid device was canceled, because it interfered with parts designed by important people. My work was sabotaged for years. I even reported some weird hardware buying scheme at the 5x market rate. Made myself very unpopular. Lost belief in my skills completely. Found a new job as software developer leaving hardware design completely, because this area is poisoned to me by my last job. My sanity was saved by running a consultancy on the side. I delivered everything what clients asked on time and with acceptable quality, so I know, that everything I do is all right. Despite that I had hard time digesting the situation at work and comparing it to my own results. The gap was just too big. Now I see that my project was always derailed by the important guy without any technical knowledge, but with connections everywhere. This story costs the company millions. Because the current system is like from 1985 looking at the technical level of it. But since the important people stick to it (because this outdated crap keeps them important) nothing will change. Depending on factory load the yearly loss can be two digit million number. But in the reality nobody cares about such things, it’s a collateral in a game of power.