Really don ' t get all the Mike Mitchell hate . He doesn ' t always make the smartest plays but he hits hard and is outright our best player in the secondary . He gets exposed often playing mop up after our corners linebackers get burned and he ' s the last line of defense . good to have an enforcer on the field in any situation <| sep |> Let ' s face it , Jason ' s not afraid of anyone . He knows he came in with a massive advantage and if he could get himself to the end it wouldn ' t matter who he was standing next to . I HATE the word , but it ' s been rigged from the word Hey Hookahs I ' m back ! <| sep |> I feel this needs to be separated into the distinct parts of how your direct manager treats you and how the business you serve treats you , because there ' s different ways of potentially mitigating these . In regards to the manager relationship , I personally haven ' t experienced the sort of screaming tantrum behaviour that seems to be common in US workplaces , but I have worked under managers who didn ' t deliver outcomes that I would ' ve considered in my interest not protecting me from hostile areas of the business , not setting realistic expectations of IT delivery for the business , not working with me on professional development , etc . For those people , all you can really do is try to avoid it as part of your vetting process when applyinginterviewing for the role using tools like Glassdoor and LinkedIn to see if there ' s been high turnover in that area of the business , asking the right questions in the interview and other techniques like asking to see the work area and reading the body language of your potential coworkers . If it ' s the business at large who ' s treating you poorly , I find that ' s a more complex issue and is generally something related to culture and thus can ' t be resolved by yourself . In places I ' ve worked at where the business has unreasonable expectations and poor behavior towards IT , there have been a number of common factors including an incredibly low level of service delivery often combined with poor attitudepersonal relationships between IT and business staff , IT stuck permanently in the breakfix firefighting rut and generally , mismanagement and underfunding . Resolving this really requires some very senior people in the organisation looking in the mirror because they ' ve often been actively involved in allowing the situation to happen , enabled it or stood by . In some cases , management throw up their hands and say too hard and outsource to get rid of the problem . In general if you ' re in a space where IT is actually delivering some real strategic value ie . creating new methods of gaining revenue , efficiency gains , lower costs , allowing the business to be more agile , etc then this relationship is usually more positive because the top down message is more positive IT is a partner vs IT is some hole we throw a lot of cash into .