" i've seen management say 'yes' to every demand and timeline from a client, then go to the techies and say the client is clueless and stubborn and insist that corners be cut to meet the deadline."

My experience is a little more insidious in terms that the things I want to do are 'not what the customer wants'. Speaking to the customer, you find out that there's a huge translation problem in terms of hitting their expectations. Removing the manager has meant more targets hit.

These days I try to get up as far as I can in the food chain so I can actually judge what the customer wants and needs...this would be nigh on impossible in a true corporate setting.

One other cute one was when I was asked to quote for a job, told my estimate was too high and had it overridden...only for the job to cost a bit more than my estimate because I wasn't told all the parameters.

Yes, I'm looking for another job, but not because of pink slips, but because I can do better.

Every product that I've ever bought from SonicBlue has been malformed and returned to sender.

The technology sounds cool, but I'll probably wait until it's available from another vendor.

Seriously,

1. Depression is closely related to anxiety. As the novelty of the Internet wears out, it stops creating that extra anxiety and stress.
2. Dot-coms have been causing great deal of crazines before the crash. People were over-motivated by stock options and exorbitant salaries. Too much work doesn't make you any healthier.
3. The very knowledge that the Internet could cause depression may have played its role. Increased self-awareness of potential depression victims may have helped to decrease the risk of it actually happening.

Sorry for my bad English,
need to go get some sleep.