All companies are dominated by stupidity. What makes the difference is the amount of compensation you get for staying there.
 

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  Senka Lukavic
 
  Role: junior developer

Senka was the only woman in champ firm, if we don't count Dodoni's accountant "for whom it was difficult to say whether she was a woman or a man", as one of the employees once said. She came to the firm six months before Bojan as a fresh mathematics graduate. She was young, enthusiastic and she expected from her new firm to provide her with opportunity to learn, prove herself and gain experience in programming. She was pretty much like Bojan in those expectations, and also as him, she had no experience working in software firm and in real software team. Dodoni hired her as a junior programmer for minimal wage and because of that and the fact that she was a woman she had to do all the dirty and unwanted tasks that other male colleagues avoided or hated to do. That included debugging or finishing other people's code, designing reports, small and dull programming tasks and so on.

Chief Zakro and his pet head developer Krunoslav showed so little respect for her that for first few weeks in Dodoni she wasn't assigned one serious task. Instead, she had to ask other colleagues if they had some tasks to delegate to her. Patrik was the most understanding of them all and Senka began to work on some small tasks in his REAL project.
When Bojan came to Dodoni, her morale was already very low and it was obvious that she was near quitting. At the time Bojan didn't know why, but soon he found out the main cause of Senka's despair, when he started working on the projects managed by Zakro and designed by his favourite assistant Krunoslav Stinky.

Two months after Bojan arrived to firm, Senka quit. She found a new job in a software department of big Croatian bank, where she expected to find more opportunities for self-improvement and possibly better organization than in Dodoni. Unfortunately, she soon realized that her new firm is not much better than Dodoni and that she is surrounded by people like Zakro and Stinky. In other words, champions are everywhere.
 

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