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One of today's bits of fun was some kind of emergency that I don't have the details on (we were often not included on things and that's only gotten much worse since getting bought) where instead of getting a ticket, it was a Slack message. But only a Slack message. No one was tagged. And so there was no response because no one got an alert. And no one saw this and tried to escalate it by tagging people or opening a ticket or any other reasonable thing. And I'm reminded by this and a thousand other things that people in corporate environments constantly do the stupidest thing possible to sabotage everything so that they can blame other people and make themselves look better. Everyone is constantly doing this in incredibly elaborate farces. There's the old adage of giving someone enough rope to hang themselves and that does sometimes happen but mostly people weave intricate traps for each other all day long. There was absolutely a lot of this when it was 1 + 0.5 + 0.5 people writing code and three C-levels but now it's like Mad Max. One large government research project I worked on, I watched get completely derailed by one rampaging angry idiot, and the project got turned around from a smashing success to a complete failure. I've long marvelled at other partner companies' IT contacting US and asking us to help them find their own internal data that we don't and should not have access to, but now I see immediately how everyone tries to outsource their jobs on everyone else and how that's a logical extension of that. A whole bunch of managers just pass the buck all day. This is in middle of a meat grinder. Monty Python and the Holy Grail credits did a sthick where the people responsible for sacking the people who have been sacked have just been sacked, and that's literally what's going on in here. I don't know if any of the people who left should have (ok one was getting up in our tiny little team's business about hour usage even though, or more likely because, we out competed his huge team so don't miss that). I don't know if in general, the good people got pushed out and the dramatic actors are left if they were horrible too. The immediate coworkers have done their best to raise to the occasion. I'm really really tired of neurotypical people right now.