You do realize the ideas you're pushing are here essentially indistinguishable from a conspiracy theory, right? Not only do multiple sources show similar results, but everyone here says, "Yep, that seems about right in my experience." But because your experience is different, you think everybody must be lying or totally hoodwinked, and you're the only one who knows the real truth. The more likely conclusion is that your experience is below average, not that everybody else is falsely reporting the same above-average working conditions.

Both sides cite multiple sources. If all it was one company, then it would be just "a bad company", except that I'm not just referencing one - I'm referencing several.

Let's suppose I've managed to find the absolute worst of companies - fine, I can accept that.

Then why are recruiters/HR/managers so apprehensive to disclose what the cost control measure are - what are the plans, policies, procedures, practices, and processes, what are the duties and scope, roles are responsibilities ........ ?

I honestly don't think that getting vending machine tokens from HR daily for can of free soda, or whatever "gourmet sandwich" is the vending machine is impressive.

Impressive would be 401K plan sponsored by the company that allows you to rollover the 401K's from previous employers, and allows you to roll it over into some other company when you leave. Or a 401K that stays with you as you move from project to project within the company.

Actually your "side" never cited a source. Again, looking at your comment history, I see you telling a lot of vague stories and criticizing other people's sources, but you never provide a single source of your own. In your entire history, you reference exactly two distinct urls neither of which has any salary or benefits information at all.

Multiple times in this thread and others, you link to a list of large government contracting companies: http://washingtontechnology.com/toplists/top-100-lists/2011....

And then, a long time ago, you linked to a dice posting in order to ridicule it:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3072172

> 5 years experience with SQL Server 2008

> http://seeker.dice.com/jobsearch/servlet/JobSearch?op=302...

If your job is as bad as you seem to imply, then I certainly hope you heed people's advice and find another. But I'm beginning to suspect that you're being intentionally misleading for some other purpose.