I've had a similar experience several times as well. There's a real disconnect when you are chewed out for having wasted company time on improving a process an

I've had a similar experience several times as well. There's a real disconnect when you are chewed out for having wasted company time on improving a process and it is still used years after you have quit the company. (I actually managed to replace about 20 hours of my work week with several scripts that took two or three minutes to run. The best part is that I also did the same for a project manager - and he would regularly get bored web surfing and come and ask if I ever needed any help.)