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You are assuming the company wasn't running as intended, ineptitude and all at a junior level. As plain as day for all to see except for the retards who don't know how retarded they are.

It was quite feasible that the development team have selected most middle management based on Myers-Briggs typological assessment for being sycophants. That the real business is not what you assume it to be, but perhaps a form of adventure capitalism with a portfolio focus on long-term real estate investment opportunities.

The real game is to convince the black girl to complain about whatever bothers you, and add in a faggot if necessary. Never have the complaint trace back to you.

Exactly, don't tell people what bothers you because then they can cover it up while others are looking.

You mean the pizza parties didn't make us all besties???

This, and it is also a basic form of liability coverage. This follows from the nature of bureaucracies. HR serves a function similar to the function accounting does for financial facts, just for facts about how the company relates to employees. It is still a form of accounting.

We did such and such on this date, blah blah blah. Not to mention, the amount of internal analysis that now takes place means HR departments are constantly producing reports full of statistics about the group-level features of their practices. This is largely to defend against claims by employees against the company.

Companies don't want to pay out from litigation against them. The evolution of the corporate world has mostly been a story about how companies are forced to pay, and then they institute things that make them not have to pay for that same reason ever again. Then they share knowledge, through consulting businesses that make big bucks. All to form these elaborate shields protecting employers from employees.

This has all become extremely fucking bloated in the last few decades with the rise of intersectional politics over race, gender, age, handicaps, you name it.

Also, OP's advice about what you say at work is very important. I've learned this the hard way. People you think are your friends will utilize things you've said in the past against you, at any future point they see an opportunity to get ahead by doing so. Things might be totally friendly at the time you say it, but memories are long, and especially in today's world of reputation assault as the main form of competition, you've got to be careful what you divulge.

Be wary of people who frequently try to build rapport with you by soliciting you to complain about others, especially higher-ups. I was literally gamed by a woman at a previous employer who flirted around and got me into these 'muh casual' conversations, just to then funnel all of this to the boss. Mind you, she was complaining too, but she exploited the notion that this was 'just between us'.

Don't trust anybody, or at least, hold on loosely. Friends in the workplace can become non-friends, just like that.

Lastly, also be cautious about this gross, recent trend of boundary-breaking between work and non-work life. I've observed far too much non-work bonding between employees. There are too many reasons to get into here.