My wife's dev environment VMs are 'remediated' at 8pm regardless if she's using them or not - there is no override policy - and the company is singing the success story of saving 40 dollars in licensing.

At another corporation, it can take several weeks to learn how to fill out the IAM role and permission boundaries to allow a new app to run - and a governance board has to review it and allow it.

We have weaponized Agile and Scrum - loathsome coworkers will write stories to write stories. Upper management is pushing us to mark "out of office" one day a week, but to then work through it, due to superfluous meetings dragging the productivity down.

A 4000 dollar, maxed out macbook pro boots up directly into a load average of 20.00 and upwards, as antivirus software scrubs every interaction and files open and even at rest deep on the SSD disk. Teams videos run at 3 FPS and lag constantly, making one look like they dont understand the conversation.

All of this, to dabble in code, the thing we're passionate to do, to try and help these places exist.

I didn't fall out of love with coding. I love it deeply, but there's an abusive guardian at the front door with a shotgun, oblivious that I'm here to help