Death March projects

[krytonsheep]

No one lost their job and the super genius responsible left for a better job soon after.

I've seen that time and time again. You'll get someone who is very outspoken, but lacking in any deep technical understanding. Managers listen to them, waste a gazillion pounds. The guy leaves, will put on his CV he did the equivalent of building a SpaceX rocket single handedly, and gets a ridiculously good job because people buy into the bulltulip.

The things I've seen people won't believe. The best analogy I can give is like someone makes a text input box in Javascript for a payment system, writes on their CV they made Stripe, and then gets a job as the governor of the BoE.