I am currently working as a Business Analyst at a young Tech company in Overland Park KS. My team has been on a super tight deadline to bring a brand new product to market on a very short schedule. The work is challenging, the people are respectful, and the pay is excellent. I interact with our CEO directly during requirements discovery meetings about 3 times per week for at least 6 hrs per week, and last week our CEO recognized how aggressive a timeline the development team was working against, and in the meeting took time to address all the VPs in the room to make sure that proactive things where being done to take care of staff needs. This week we have a couple months worth of lineup catered in lunches, company sponsored happy hours held offsite on company time and dime, and team recreational activities scheduled.
I read all your stories about shitty places and shitty people, and shitty bosses. Contrasting my own work experience against all yours makes me feel exceptionally lucky, and simultaneously sad that we live in a society where the norm is that humanity and empathy has been brushed to chase the profit dollar to the max, and that experiences like mine are the outlier and not the norm.