[PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh Railways maps (Further Off Topic)

[Ken & Tracie]

Where I work (county hospital), middle management generally rules the roost. 
Certain entrenched mid-level managers can make or break our top management 
teams. And they have in the twenty years I've been there. These people are 
ruthless about protecting their little fiefdoms within our organization. 
Even if it means causing distress to the nursing staff, the patients, and 
the medical staff.

Some of them are part of Las Vegas' infamous "Good Ol' Boys Network" and 
their genealogy can probably be traced to the first White settlers in the 
valley.

Plus EVERY ONE of the last five CEOs has kept the same administrative 
secretarial staff they inherited from their predecessors. I believe that 
alone dooms any attempt to change "corporate culture" for the better.

Eventually, somebody (not me, as I have too much to live for away from the 
job) will come in with high power weapons and "go postal." Many of us are 
convinced it's only a matter of time.

K.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Swindler" <j_swindler at hotmail.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 5:05 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh Railways maps


>
> And people wonder why Fred and I are sooooooo cynical.   We each spent 
> over
> 30 years watching the antics of upper management from the inside.  js