LMAO. Have you ever met an executive? Promoted to one's level of incompetence, promote troublemakers away, any of these phrases ring a bell? Let me enlighten you (isn't that a joke...you, enlightened). You are just full of second-hand, recycled "knowledge", rumor, innuendo, and misinformation. Upper management is the most hands-off, out-of-touch, opportunistic bunch of twits imaginable (in the overwhelming majority of cases). They do nothing, they're figureheads. Like your George W. Bush. I can't think of a single individual who knows less, yet speaks more, than you about those things which you obviously, obviously, know absolutely nothing about from first-hand experience. Incredible how idiots are granted both the loudest mouths and most depleted brains. Tell me how some fool whose company lost billions last year has "earned" a $100 million severance bonus? You're like some sad, deluded pauper defending the sovereign rights of a drunken Lord to walk all over you, even to your own demise. It's funny, but also very sad, that such brainlessness exists in those at the higher end of the evolutionary chain.