Earlier quoted context omitted.
beware that this is only one side of the story. I joined after the re-organisations that Phil mentions in the linked post here were well underway. From all I could tell, no one regrets it. At the position I head, I only heard rumours about the struggle that he went through trying to improve the engineering problems there. Everyone (with perhaps a couple of exceptions) I know personally there (Brazilians or otherwise)…
Note that I never used the term "conniving" myself nor called anyone by name. Someone else did, and that is on them. For me what was most difficult and disappointing was not being able to rally peers or their teams to get the necessary work done. Rather they were too busy sniveling amongst themselves — too jaded from burnout, I suspect. I felt incapable in the role at first until I recognized that it was really a mat…
That's true. I only realised it later. My bad.