[qam1]

If they really are that smart and hard-working, they will gradually move up through the ranks. A good employee is worth his or her weight in gold.

LOL! You haven't worked for an American company have you? Intelligence and work ethic mean nothing, the ability to kiss ass and the MBA's rule of taking care of their own is what will get you ahead.

Do you really think all these "Senior vice presidents for global support services", "Director of Communications for the East Coast", “Vice President of Mission Related Services”, “Vice President of Administrative Services”, etc, etc, etc that infest every American buisness got where they are by working hard and being intelligent?

[donna]

Corporations are just bureaucracies:
"In every bureaucratic system, the shifting of responsibilities is a matter of daily routine. And, if one wishes to define bureaucracy in terms of political science, that is as a form of government - the rule of office as contrasted to the rule of men of one man or of the few, or of the many - bureaucracy unhappily is the rule of nobody. And, for this reason is . . . perhaps the least human and most cruel form of rulership".
- Hannh Arendt

What is American Corporatism?
. . . what kind of economy we really have. I have mentioned before that we increasingly live not in a capitalist society but in a corporatist one, and I would like to flesh out this notion.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1036236/posts

[cherry]

"Do you really think all these "Senior vice presidents for global support services", "Director of Communications for the East Coast", “Vice President of Mission Related Services”, “Vice President of Administrative Services”, etc, etc, etc that infest every American buisness got where they are by working hard and being intelligent?"

exactly......these crooks work together to keep themselves employed and if their business fails, they can count on fellow bureucrats or board members to give them a nice golden parachute...wink...wink...nod..nod

in my husbands former company, they declared bankruptcy but first gave all their "essential" employees huge parachutes and the rest?...lost pensions and medical benefits....