This post was worth the vote just because of the fond memories hacking through browser compatibility issues in the early 2000s. I'd literally cry sometimes, but I suppose it taught valuable lessons about the cost of long-term support, customer satisfaction, and the demands of building a shipping product vs. a nice tech demo.
Part of life as being an employee is learning to deal with things like this. Unfortunately, part of life being a boss/founder/owner is having to ignore all the perfectly reasonable complaints and say do it anyways, because there are business, political, or other reasons it has to be done.
That said, this special taste of hell used to be developing any site, repeated for every browser, back before all these fancy CSS frameworks that did all the hacks for you.
Given all that, I think the OP has the right approach: Sucking up and dealing with it at work, and campaigning on his private site to move onwards and upwards. Has my vote.
Part of life as being an employee is learning to deal with things like this. Unfortunately, part of life being a boss/founder/owner is having to ignore all the perfectly reasonable complaints and say do it anyways, because there are business, political, or other reasons it has to be done.
That said, this special taste of hell used to be developing any site, repeated for every browser, back before all these fancy CSS frameworks that did all the hacks for you.
Given all that, I think the OP has the right approach: Sucking up and dealing with it at work, and campaigning on his private site to move onwards and upwards. Has my vote.