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Most of the people I worked with liked the actual work just fine, but most hated the job. Much of the dissatisfaction could be traced to an incompetent, dim-bulb management team and their fumbling, bumbling interference with the work. The people who were recognized as being the very best by their peers tended to be the ones who had the lowest tolerance for all the nonsense on the job. This created an opportunity for the mediocre staff to "shine" by telling the bosses what they wanted to hear. These mediocre suck-ups were promoted, and the downward spiral accelerated. It all took about 8 years. Productivity plummeted, not because the employees "burned out" or reduced their efforts, but because of all the harebrained schemes and systems managers foisted on them in an effort to "improve". This is a long way of saying that workplace politics can destroy an otherwise decent job, and that it's almost never the work itself, it's the working conditions that usually poison the well.
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