I'm not going to open a can of worms here but lemme suffice by saying this:
With success comes maturity, and a startup turns into a corrupt, org-chart, white-elephant company. 90% of the employees end up being cronies that are pushing paper. The remaining 10% are the real engine of the company (cz the revenue stream has to be maintained somehow and real work still needs to be done). But those 10% need to be kept under the thumb at all cost, made to feel they're not good enough no matter what they do; otherwise they might start questioning wtf's going on in the rest of the company. Let's just say that I was one of those 10%. They did whatever they had to do to make an example out of me. I got my freedom, but I actually feel worse for the other hard-workers who were left behind.
With success comes maturity, and a startup turns into a corrupt, org-chart, white-elephant company. 90% of the employees end up being cronies that are pushing paper. The remaining 10% are the real engine of the company (cz the revenue stream has to be maintained somehow and real work still needs to be done). But those 10% need to be kept under the thumb at all cost, made to feel they're not good enough no matter what they do; otherwise they might start questioning wtf's going on in the rest of the company. Let's just say that I was one of those 10%. They did whatever they had to do to make an example out of me. I got my freedom, but I actually feel worse for the other hard-workers who were left behind.