If you let flaky tests merge, flaky tests become your engineering culture.
If you let managers interrupt your weekends without comment, 7-day availability becomes your contract. If you let people talk over junior engineers in reviews, arrogance becomes your team norm.
Standards aren't what you write in your company value handbook. Standards are whatever behavior you refuse to push back against.
The moment you accept mediocrity without friction, you just endorsed it.
Raise your floor.
