Sometimes, getting too good of results will only prove to your boss that you're a threat to them and will earn you the honor of being the target of their ire and infantile rage as, rather than up their own game, they try to politically hamstring you in order to prove their superiority. After all, whenever their ego is involved, you can trust someone to make an irrational decision.
While their boss was away on leave, this software developer was asked to provide a design change in their stead and delivered by using their own time and underutilized skills to produce an exceptional design document that delivered far more than anything the company had been using. But, when their boss returned from vacation, they were furious and insisted on creating a new plan themselves, which the developer was forced to implement despite knowing that it was inferior and doomed to fail.
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