>Few companies are what their founders intended them to be .
Amen to that, I work at Avery currently, and from every person who's been with the company since before Stan Avery passed away: "it's gone to hell."
Back in the day, there was a waiting list to get a job here, now they have to advertise in the local papers, and the people they get are exactly what you'd expect to get walking in off the street.
Back in the day, EVERYONE was making big bucks, you worked hard, and you got paid for it. Now it's all about making the stockholders money, and screw the people in the factory, all we do is hurt the bottom line, apparently.