I have worked for people who would sell their mother’s for the next promotion. It aint pretty.
After I retired , a Chief who had retired also ,asked me in conversation one day,” How come the troops never liked me?”
How could I tell him that they never trusted him. That they knew he would sell them out. How could he forget the time he sold me out and ask such a question?
People like Nifong are like horses with blinders on, they only see that next promotion in front of them, their peripheral vison of those they are stepping on is cut off by the blinders of ambition.
Its funny when I go to reunions, I am met and greeted and have many friends, This fellow and those like him are not welcome and mostly dont go. Oh well: He gets a lot more in his pension check than I do, maybe that is compansation.
But I never sold out a friend,or anyone else, and I never kissed anyone’s ass.
There aren't many politicians who could write that on their headstones.
I have a couple of immediate “superiors” (position only) that would sell anyone or anything out for a few bucks or brownie points. Those are people I can do without.
Seeing people kiss ass is sickening to me and most of the normal types. I am thankful that I have a genetic defect that inhibits me from being able to do that. That may explain my mediocre career but at least I didn’t sell out to get it.
What is interesting is that those same people often need one of us common people when they can’t function or do something on thier own.