That is an accurate summary indeed. I'd posit that this is not necessarily a feature of large corporations; I've been in smaller places (startups, to boot) whe

That is an accurate summary indeed. I'd posit that this is not necessarily a feature of large corporations; I've been in smaller places (startups, to boot) where I observed almost all of what you've described. It takes a certain combination of sociopathic, psychopathic, and apathetic individuals in the right places to make this happen -- and they're almost always present in the right (wrong?) places, regardless of size.