fiefdom

If you've ever had a tyrannical boss, you'll see sometimes the company is just their fiefdom.

But as a rule small - not just startup, means you have more power and control over yourself and your fiefdom.

That person is the ruler in the fiefdom - it's purely cultic and deceptive to say otherwise.

It could be that best you can do is carve out a little fiefdom of standards sanity.

The founder has no real consideration for you other than as a resource in his fiefdom.

Especially when your redesign will 'encroach' on someone's little fiefdom that they've cultivated over the years.

The VP basically turned the technical side of the company into his own personal fiefdom.

They intentionally allow users coming from a Google search to enter their fiefdom, but throw up a paywall for direct links.

It may have been that, but from where I sat, most of it appeared to be fiefdom disputes.

Instead it's doled out as a strange mix of feudal fiefdom and public service.

And they will continue to drive corruption-- whether it's a private entity or the warden of prisons building his own fiefdom, the incentive is to keep more people imprisoned longer for personal profit.

So basically what they have in those cases is a state-granted fiefdom.

They are all small-minded despots whose only intention is carving out a little fiefdom of pages and "protecting"/manipulating them by any means possible.