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One of many reasons I left Apple. My manager's manager would say stuff like this all the time, and then when I actually made my PR he would basically have me redesign stuff from scratch. It made me dread working on projects because I knew that no matter what I did I would be forced to rewrite it from scratch anyway.
Any chance you were in one of that infamous orgs?
Yeah, my org had a pretty high turnover rate. I didn't enjoy it, I wish my transfer had gone through because I suspect I would have enjoyed the team I was applying for considerably more. Not how it worked out though, and after a certain point I couldn't take it anymore.