It continues to amaze me that this happens in all companies in this business, of all sizes, all over the world. (Though maybe things here and in the U.S. are just very similar for whatever reason.)

I was innocent enough to think it's just the army that functions this way back when I was in it. It felt appropriate that it should because it's the army and there's no oversight, at least not by people who know what they're doing. But no, what do you know.