Re: Please do remember...
So, if I have correctly parsed your prose, your objection is that the BOFH spoke about the benefit to the company? Was it this bit that had you concerned:
"Yes, but if the quantity is zero, one has to wonder whether you're just feeding and watering a bunch of your mates on the company dime and then axing the product to spend more work time playing MMORPGs at home – instead of coming into work."
Your job doesn't have to be massive in your life for you to dislike someone who is lazy and wasteful of others' resources. It doesn't have to be central for you to prefer to see your employer run efficiently. And, in this fictional world, it was likely the BOFH's personal money (well, the IT budget, but that's just two terms for the same thing) that was being wasted.
What attitude would you prefer to see from employees? Would completely flat apathy be your goal? Or are you hoping for a more adversarial relationship? Given your description of it as "Stockholm syndrome", I don't know what would please you.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
