Having worked at a video game company, I've probably seen about some of the worst that the tech community has to offer (and, granted, some of the best). At the

Having worked at a video game company, I've probably seen about some of the worst that the tech community has to offer (and, granted, some of the best). At the time, I didn't care about most of it: I could just concentrate on writing code and ignore the "drama", but now I care as much if not more about the wellbeing of my team that I no longer have that luxury. I'd like to think that it will be a relatively short amount of time before business figure out that a happy, well functioning team really is more productive, and things change overnight. But maybe that's too optimistic. Could it be that a boss who "doesn't care about feelings" as the author experienced is the best way to get things done? Probably not, but if so that sure sucks.