In 2004, I had been working on the same technology since 1990. It was interesting work technically, we kept getting major direction changes from "management". Whatever. Then we were all told if we didn't do X by Y, we'd all be fired. I didn't think that was true, but the director told is that, he was a conniver. Anyway, they concocted a test to make it appear that we met the X requirement, but I knew we were well short. I also knew my managers were flat out LYING about my work, my boss showed me their presentation and I noted "This isn't true, and that isn't true, and I don't know where this number came from."
I felt like I was far out on a limb with nowhere to go, and our VP at the time was a complete idiot, she had been promoted over and over to make numbers, and basically any time I presented something to her she would just smile and say "This is great!". So, feeling less and less comfortable with the job (and I was raising three kids at the time), I found this other position "doing nothing" and took it.
My first year in the new position I kept wondereing what I was supposed to be doing, nobody helped me, my boss wasn't interested, I did a few "presentations" and much of nothing. I finally guessed there just wasn't any work to be done.
