Corporate America........

I was talking with a friend of mine about corporations and their effects on their employees lives and how it filters into the out-of-work lives of us all. A corporation is an entity made up of a few or hundreds of people doing what they can to make money. Therefore, are the attitudes of these people directly affected by the necessary evils of a corporate existence or is the corporation itself affected by it's people. I think one of the problems is the "shoot first, ask questions later" policy that corporations have. The final purpose of the company is to make money..profit, so do what has to be done to report favorable financial results and down the road, repair the damage done in the rush to produce and grow. In the meantime, the bad employees are taking advantage of the available shortcuts and the good employees are stepped on for at least trying to do what's right, not just for the company, but for the people with whom they come into contact throughout their day. In attempting to keep up and adhere to the bottom line, even the most honest of us are forced to lie and cut corners to make it all look kosher to the higher ups. Now, do we learn this behavior from corporate living or is it something we learned outside our working life and just fine-tune to keep our employers happy? We all take short-cuts at home to get the necessary chores done, we lie because it seems easier than explaining the truth. So...What came first...the corrupt corporate chicken or the eager to succeed egg?