Technology is cheap and easily accessible, making it the ideal solution for most of our social interaction problems. No one knows what this real reasons are for not being able to see his kid, but why not write letters, include photos etc, someone should be there to read them to the child and the plus point is that they will have something to treasure from a parent that loves them.

The company I work for stretches devs and testers over multiple projects simultaneously, but still expects on-time and high quality work. The way they sell this to everyone, us and the customers, is to use the word agile and scrum multiple times. Unfortunately this seems to be the norm in Holland at the moment and the only way they pull it off is having a loyal workforce. However the truth of the matter is that slowly-but-surely the good devs and testers move on.