That's the reason I got out of programming. Spending days reinventing the concept of the wheel so you can then reinvent the wheel, and as soon as you finish someone looks at your code and says "why didn't you just add 1 here?"
I didn't make enough money to maintain a drug habit that would have allowed me to keep my sanity.
Yeah, it's one of those weird things that you don't think about until someone points it out and then it bothers you...
There was a Sci Fi story I read that was based on a space station where the people who had been there awhile said that you can always spot the newbies 'cause they always line up like magnetic poles.
Are we mandating that Congress works in the office then?