I could literally listen to this every single day. This is what you call an epic rant.
Finally listened to the whole thing. Yep - epic rant. Thoroughly on target, thoroughly accurate, and unfortunately, it ain't gonna change.
Adam, brought up in the Seventies as he said, witnessed more of that "ass-douchery" than perhaps most of us, largely because of the California angle where the "ass-douchery" is in full force.
"Ass-douchery" is pretty much the way things are in the corporate world these days. If you're a manager or a supervisor, when you start holding people accountable for piss-poor performance, you'd better have your ducks in a row and you'd better be lawyered up (so to speak). Because it isn't the shitbags that are being examined, it's YOU.