>>> If you are a productive individual and you work in a place where lazy, late to arrive, early to leave, incompetent individuals are not only tolerated but p

>>> If you are a productive individual and you work in a place where lazy, late to arrive, early to leave, incompetent individuals are not only tolerated but promoted, why would you stay? If you do stay, why would you work hard? That's the US Federal gov't GS workforce, particularly the DoD and DHS, in a nutshell. Annnnnnnnnnnnnnd pretty much every large corporation I've ever worked for. Most of the smartest people I know usually start their own companies, or work at smaller firms where they get lucrative work to maintain a nice upper six figure salary; doing what they really love to do without all the corporate entanglements. For example, I had a friend who worked at Thomson Reuters. After three years, he got fed up with the same scenario you pointed out. He started his own translation company (he's from Bulgaria and speaks 6 languages fluently) and now his biggest client? Oh yeah, its Thomson Reuters. He makes triple now running his own show as opposed to when he was working in the meat grinder.