The culture of American employment is awful. All that matters is making your boss look good politically and financially. To hell with anything else. If you aren

The culture of American employment is awful. All that matters is making your boss look good politically and financially. To hell with anything else. If you aren't making your boss look good you are expendable, even if you're doing things to truly help the company which are not apparent to management. The best strategy for dealing with this is to live on as little as possible, save and invest the rest, and become financially independent. Happiness in life is inversely proportional to how many people you have to answer to.