It's gotten really bad. There are whole swathes of companies that we deal with that are great if you can deal with their first-party people, but we're just part of a bundle of services provided to that company through a big Tata/Infosys/Cognizant/etc contract. And that part of it is incredibly toxic.

I think if I get another email with less than a sentence describing a problem, no screenshots, nothing, ending in "do the needful", or a high-priority meeting invitation sent at 7 am for 8:30 am, with no agenda or any indication of what is going to be discussed, I'm going to come unglued. The communication and organizational skills of the project managers I've dealt with leaves so much to be desired that I can't even express it, and there always seems to be such a swirl of people with ambiguous authority involved that just trying to mentally keep track of an org chart is a struggle.

I just groan when I see that we've gotten a new lead; it may pay the bills, but I'm not sure the grey hairs and indigestion are worth it.