Comment by kbr2000

It's likely the only way to stay sane in a corporate environment. The problem is, you don't need much people practicing that, before it drags everyone down to the same niveau. You can choose to try to continue your quest into doing work seriously (this will likely drive you insane over the years), or to join in that kind of negligence (goodbye spine), or to quit. In the end it got us where we are now, a world filled with fake companies selling their fake little products as they were qualitative, and making a game of disrespecting their own customers. Pure facade, been there...

I've done it before, but I'll recommend to you Scott Adams' book, The Dilbert Principle for some light reading about forces like that at work.