step-children

BigCo management harbors no specific animosity for the step-children, a few of whom are actually former BigCo employees.

Agree that self-signed SSL certificates are treated as if they were the red-headed step-children of SSL.

Character styles in Word have always seemed like neglected step-children relative to paragraph styles.

It appears to me to be another weak justification for why one of the Chair Force's least favorite step-children can't have any toys.

BigCo is actually indifferent to the step-children; but BigCo has a stuffy corporate culture in which certain kinds of people thrive and some otherwise excellent people do not.

Are we banning adoptions and step-children now?

Then, lo and behold within a short time most of the step-children start getting the hint and either flee to a competitor, form another LittleCo, find a new line of work, or some combination of those things.

> We define references to familial relationships as terms that refer to parents, step-parents, children, step-children, siblings, step-siblings, grandparents, aunts or uncles, and nieces or nephews.

At BigCo, what happens is that the group of step-children gets a new chief and new "Project Managers".

BigCo knows that it can't really allow the step-children to mingle with the rank and file or else the step-childred might infect them with freedom of thought or whatever it was that enabled LittleCo to beat BigCo at "X", or else there will be a TPS report revolt, or something.