Agreed, and as I tried to say in another comment, the real purpose is to help the company make money (and achieve its other goals). Ideally your management know

Agreed, and as I tried to say in another comment, the real purpose is to help the company make money (and achieve its other goals). Ideally your management knows what those goals are and pleasing them is a proxy for that. Not always true, but in that case you have another problem, and its good to know that.