It only bleeds

Rich McCord and I  were talking yesterday about work.  I made the comment "Why should anyone keep beating their head against the wall" and Rich replied Yeah - "because it only bleeds". 

So you have found a technical detail in your work that would dramatically improve the business.  You bring it up and the naysayers begin to beat it down.  You are passionate, young, energetic, risktaking, and willing to go to the mat.  Or you are an engineer and see the beauty in the elegance of the design, the need for harmony in the science.  Time or money is not the object here.  You will make the time and you know the investment of money will pay off.

Fight as you might - the battle is uphill.  But with relentless persistence you get the feature implemented.  And the result?

Your boss gets a bigger bonus and because he is so many layers above you, he doesn't even know why he got the bonus.

Your head is sore, there is blood on the floor.