I was one of those poor bastards in a corporate IT department six or eight years ago arguing passionately that the standards were in the RFCs and not in "the way Microsoft does things" and we shouldn't design the intranet nor buy expensive products dependent on IE 6 nor rely on postback for GET requests nor etc., etc., and I was pretty consistently shouted down. Any schadenfreude I might enjoy now at the results of one or two particular projects I worked on are overshadowed by regret at missing what we could have done.
In such a situation your choices are either: buckle and become a cog; do it anyway and ask for forgiveness later, if anyone notices (good luck); get the eff out as fast as you can.
