Reply #16: I'm stunned that ANYBODY thinks the BP management is good for anything

[TheKentuckian]

but hiding dirt, telling lies, sucking up wealth like vampires, and making dirt.

The people that think this way must have only worked for a salt of the earth small business person that knew well every job under them. Often in the corporate world there are people as low as directors with no functional ability or knowledge in the company and even with great regularity there are managers that almost worthless.

By no means is it a 100%, I'd like to think I've performed admirably in leadership roles but that also gives me enough insight to know there can be a lot of worthless people in the upper ranks.

The best and brightest might even be even distributed through an organization, though the well connected seem to clump up pretty good toward the top.

Does ANYBODY believe that Tony Hayward is some super genius? After listening to him and looking at the calls he and his cohorts have made, would it not be about equally likely that a lot of these bigwigs aren't that much different than our ex pResident. Just well connected worthless fucks that kinda fail upwards and as they do leave a wake of crappiness that infects the organization as the impact of their foot print increases???

Again, not always but more than the hope that hard work, determination, and brains will win the day can bear so it's easier to believe that "those guys are on another level" or some such shit.

Some of these folks mostly know about getting on boards and talk numbers or marketing. They are taken far too seriously by some.