Re: The work is its own reward ;)
True, but once you've occupied that space for a certain length of time it can be amazing what you can get a company to do to ensure you stay there.
One large company I worked for ended up allowing me to move my workplace to another country rather than accept my resignation. My entire team was made redundant, and the company was caught in a nasty situation where my name was also on that list, but they found they couldn't let me go. Then there was the time they sent around a stack of company policy documents, saying that it was mandatory to sign them. Two of the four were a whole load of bollocks about how the company treated staff well, stuff like how they paid at least industry rate on all roles when they quite measurably didn't. I refused to sign them. After a bit of wrangling they decided to turn the other cheek, which was fine by me.
In short, it became very apparent that they'd carved out one large exception and it had my name on it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
