Must you be a soulless, evil scoundrel to succeed in the corporate world?

[CoffeeCat]

Can an honest, hardworking, moral person successfully make it in the corporate world?

Conversely---Is it almost a requirement that a successful corporate executive be a blackhearted jerk?

Wouldn't a kind, fair-minded, person of character get eaten alive and taken advantage of--by the ruthless bastards that saturate the corporate world?

I'm so bummed. I quit a job several years ago, mainly due to an abusive boss. He was THE WORST. I'm talking--four-alarm, over-the-top abuses that were actionable. I contacted an attorney after I quit. The attorney was salivating to take my case. This boss had written a fake "press release" about my pregnancy. The press release stated (among other things), that the father of my child was unknown, and that the staff was going to enjoy watching my midsection expand during the coming months. This jerk disseminated this press release to twenty people in the company. Nice huh? This was only one thing he did to me. And it wasn't the worst.

I decided today--five years after quitting--to Google the bastage. He's now a VP at one of the largest companies in America. I expected that he'd be a crossing guard; or working the night shift at the jerk store. But no--he's a vp. Lovely. Just lovely.

Is there any justice in this world?