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No, just loathsome. And the end product of what I did and finding the people I was doing it for loathsome.
I dunno, "loathsome" sounds a bit theoretical to me. Can you be specific?
One of my brother's co-workers at Goldman Sachs has actively tried to sabotage his work. (Goldman Sachs runs on a highly competitive "up or out" system; you either get promoted or fired, and most people don't get promoted. If my brother lost his job, his coworker would be more likely to keep his.)
I don't understand: he tried to sabotage his cowerker's work, or his own?
CronoDAS's Brother's Co-worker tried to sabotage CronoDAS's Brother's work.
"Hamlet, in love with the old man's daughter, the old man thinks."
Not without getting political. Fundamentally, I didn't feel good about what I was doing. And I was just a Unix sysadmin.
This was just a job to live, not a job taken on in the furtherance of a larger goal.