A Merger

[Fireball]

And we appreciate those benevolent oligarchs!   All of youse!

The beatings will continue daily until morale improves.

 One company I worked for, fellow workers put out a flyer where the company had a program called "Special High Intensity Training", AKA "SHIT". One was allowed, nay encouraged, to take as much SHIT as they could handle. I went to a lunchtime presentation about workplace violence. When the presenter asked if anyone had been subjected to workplace violence, many hands went up. Later in the presentation, that presenter joked about how "violence against fellow employees was a way to get promoted, followed by a disclaimer. But looking around the auditorium, many heads were nodding. It was an underground understanding that abusing fellow employees was a way to promotion. Another was breaking expensive hardware. So, the violent, incompetent people got promoted into positions in the functional management part of the company. That went on for decades. Finally, after enough megabuck lawsuits, we all got to sit through a 90 minute lecture from a corporate attorney explaining shit that one usually learns in the sandbox when they are 3 to 4 years old. What's interesting is that the abusers don't think it applies to them, and the non-abusers think the same thing. #irony