History Quotes / ThereAreNoGoodExecutives

->''Paymasters come in only two sizes: one sort shows you where the book says that you can't have what you've got coming to you; the second sort digs through the book until he finds a paragraph that lets you have what you ned even if you don't rate it.''
-->--''Literature/TheDoorIntoSummer''

->''Paymasters come in only two sizes: one sort shows you where the book says that you can't have what you've got coming to you; the second sort digs through the book until he finds a paragraph that lets you have what you ned even if you don't rate it.''
-->--''Literature/TheDoorIntoSummer''

->Dick Washburn, known forever as [[EmbarrassingNickname Dickwash]], is a type D pencilneck: [[SmugSnake a sassy wannabe paymaster]] with vestigial humanity. This makes him vastly less evil than a type B pencilneck ([[ObsctructiveBureaucrat heartless bureaucratic machine]], pro-class tennis) and somewhat less evil than a type C pencilneck ([[CorruptCorporateExecutive chortling lackey of the dehumanizing system]], ambient golf) but unquestionably more evil than pencilneck types M through E ([[AndIMustScream real human screaming to escape]] [[BecomingTheMask a soul-devouring professional persona]], varying degrees of desperation). No one I know has ever met the type A pencilneck, in much the same way that no one ever reports their own fatal accident; a type A pencilneck would be a person so consumed by the mechanism in which he or she is employed that they had [[EmptyShell ceased to exist as a separate entity]]. They would be odorless, faceless and undetectable, without ambition or restraint, and would take decisions entirely [[TheUnfettered unfettered by human concerns]], make choices for the company, of the company. A type A pencilneck would be the kind of person to sign off on torture and push the nuclear button for no more pressing reason [[JustFollowingOrders than that it was his job]] - or her job - and it seemed the next logical step.