Today, I sat reading Lion Taming: Working Successfully with Leaders, Bosses, and Other Tough Customers which proposed the view that high level managers are “lions” and to deal with them, one needs to learn be a “lion tamer.” The book expanded on this by describing managers as seeing people as either part of their pride, their prey, their enemy, or something ignored. For the first few pages, I was pretty interested, but soon the book began describing upper management as not only a different breed, but as people that should be treated as carefully as if they really are lions, capable of killing you on the spot.

At that point, I got really irritated and wondered why I was reading such a load of elitist bullshit. If upper management are a different breed, then corporate America is a fucking circus. And as I sit here listening to Minor Threat, I wonder how I digressed from the kid who didn’t take anyone’s shit to the man who eats enough shit that he feels the need to read books on what some elitist fuck in a tie wants to hear.

I think Corporate America is slowly choking the fight out of me, and the fight in me is one of my favorite parts.

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