>An opportunity eventually arose to mention the long meetings to a more senior manager, who shared Palmer's concerns and promised to look into it. One thing I

>An opportunity eventually arose to mention the long meetings to a more senior manager, who shared Palmer's concerns and promised to look into it. One thing I learned about was "chain of command". I was not in the military, but in reality, at least in the US at a large company, "chain of command" always exists when you want to criticize your manager. You should try and find other ways of doing that. Yes it stinks, but that is the way things are.