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>Thus he was thrown under the bus to deflect attention Why is it so hard to imagine someone doing this without direct order? Why do we assume the "executive"
by forgetsusername 10y ago
>Thus he was thrown under the bus to deflect attention
Why is it so hard to imagine someone doing this without direct order? Why do we assume the "executive" is evil, but the lowly worker is "good"?
- ashark 10y agoBeing generally scummy and not getting caught (or not getting caught by anyone who matters) gives you a big advantage in business. Those who rise to the top through many rounds of competition are therefore either generally scummy or are just so damn good that they can be saints and still outcompete the (possibly colluding and therefore even harder to beat!) assholes. Source: all history of business since forever, and/or an evening of drinks and discussion with any mid-ladder-climb MBA. The lowly worker, meanwhile, has failed to rise in the ranks and is therefore less likely to be evil than the population average since some of the evil people (but proportionately fewer not-evil people) have moved out of his or her cohort (to higher-paying positions). QED.