Certainly. The problem is, not all cost savings are welcome. What if your manager is halfway through a 2-year, $5 million project----which you made obsolete in 2 days using a swig + lua + a 1-page long script?
Is your manager going to go to his manager, and tell him he just wasted $2.5 million? When his manager has promised him a big bonus if he completes the project by the end of the year?
---///---
I've seen--very understandably--comments like "there's no way that could ever happen" or "this guy must be very hard to work with in other ways." Not so.
The problem, was a culture clash between how west coast/silicon valley software companies work, and how east-coast companies work. Not that one is necessarily better or worse than other, but they are very different and if you are slow to pick up on that (as I unfortunately was) its very easy to get burnt.
I’m so sorry this happened to you. I’ve been extremely fortunate so far, and if this had happened to me early on in my career I would have been absolutely crushed.
Is your manager going to go to his manager, and tell him he just wasted $2.5 million? When his manager has promised him a big bonus if he completes the project by the end of the year?
---///---
I've seen--very understandably--comments like "there's no way that could ever happen" or "this guy must be very hard to work with in other ways." Not so.
The problem, was a culture clash between how west coast/silicon valley software companies work, and how east-coast companies work. Not that one is necessarily better or worse than other, but they are very different and if you are slow to pick up on that (as I unfortunately was) its very easy to get burnt.