Thank you. Yes, I work for a subsidiary of a large corporation, the main system is built on a 20-year old deprecated development environment called Forte 4GL (

Thank you. Yes, I work for a subsidiary of a large corporation, the main system is built on a 20-year old deprecated development environment called Forte 4GL ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forte_4GL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forte_4GL ) with more than a million lines of code. Technical debt is humungous, but nobody cares since they just put more programmers to work (it's indescribably inefficient). I did manage to migrate one of the core subsystems (policy issuance and data entry) to .NET, and I'm pretty proud of that, but my work wasn't recognized by management, which spends all the time in politics (and advancement is only a function of office politics, etc.). Management is pretty short-sighted, prioritizing short-term shiny new things over fixing problems that will blow up long term. So after 5 years I'm leaving, I should have left much earlier but well paying, stable jobs are not so easy to get in my country, and I didn't want to emigrate and was afraid of change. My prediction is that the mismanagement will blow in managements' face when the next economic crisis hits (currently my country is in an economic bonanza which masks bad decisions and mismanagement).