Let’s have it out: are we offended (in the context of the above story) by the mention of semi-competent American workaholics and the stupid corporate managements that reward them?
How can we be offended when we don’t even know what you are trying to say in that sentence? Why don’t you try reading it slowly and ask yourself if you had not written it yourself would you have any idea what it means? I even showed it to my wife and she at first thought she understood it but then admitted that she really didn’t know what it meant. Maybe I, my wife and ecomcon are all just slow witted?