Org charts are annoyingly real. And the actions at the top fully dictate the potential for the bottom. I'm comfortably in the middle with no real power, but I have an excellent relationship with my boss who triages between my team and the powers at be. We still perform tasks that I feel are flat out bad decisions that will come back to haunt us — ask me how having a lone devops resource deploy OpenStack instead of doing AWS went.

Going with the flow has its advantages if you feel your position is relatively stable, as I do. Make sure you find purpose outside of your job to help with your mental health