Forgot this quote. Yeah, understatement

Over and over again in my 5 years working in IT in thus system I would encounter obvious problems no one would discuss because the culture was to keep your head down. Little incentive to ask tough questions or suggest different approaches. Multiple times I would make a suggestion or even ask a question about why we were doing something only to be ridiculed. I even had a VP sabotaging my reputation in the district. Thankfully my reputation with my colleagues made people that knew me discard this.

I was skeptical of any government run institution at the time but was still a Rush Limbaugh Republican. Working in this system opened my eyes to many issues I wasn't aware of. I jumped at the chance to move to private higher ed. Which was much better but because they copy many bad practices from the public side and are filled with the products of that system it too was deeply flawed.

I moved to the cut throat agency world where my hustle is rewarded instead of ridiculed and never regretted it.