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They are not the intern anymore - they are senior vice president of battery draining, this feature absolutely killed it at the end of year review.


For the replier that wanted a more substantive response; my comment can be expanded on by pointing out it is ultimately a commentary on the motivations involved in the employee-manager relationship within the bureaucracy of the mega-corporation, within a society where financial success drives including but not limited to comfort, mate selection, breeding, health, longevity and day-to-day basic survival itself - factors with the importance of which has been determined by millennia of evolutionary biology.

Ultimately the result can be that an employee chooses health, survival and the social status that a job title brings and ships a product or feature that they can sell to their manager as innovative / disruptive / greatness reimagined.




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