I'm not really bitter about all of this. I think I'm more sad, and it all just sounds bitter. See, one my biggest pet peeves is incompetence. Most people think that incompetence is when you can't do something. But I disagree. Incompetence is when you can't do something because you simply won't try or truly believe it's beneath you. If you honestly can't get something or don't understand that is not incompetence. However, if you have a printer in your office AND an assistant and you work in New York and then you call someone in Florida to call someone in New York--where you already are!-- to print out a document for you, that is incompetence. And then because your secretary took some "initiative" and printed it out for you and now you have god forbid two copies of something, feel free to wave around the offending three pieces of paper and act like someone just signaled for the fall of the company. A completely reasonable reaction. And no I'm not making that scenario up. I only wish I were.

But the depressing thing about corporate life, is that there are always incompetent people making it to the top and the ones that actually do the work are shuffled to the side or "not playing the game" or whatever other reasons people come up with that the other person will eventually not get a promotion or moved to a job that better "fits their skill set". It's really one of the reasons I'd be scared of being successful--it would mean that I've lost all touch with reality and I can't staple something together on my own.