# Quote — Max Barry, Company

> The only thing more amazing than the catalog of brutal methods the company uses to demean its workers is that it thinks it’s helping. Not that the employees are going to say this. Positive feedback is taken very seriously, often ending up in annual reports, but negative feedback leads to HR investigations into employee attitude problems.

- Author: [Max Barry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry.md)
- Book: [Company](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry/company.md)
- Page: 273
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Barry#Company_(2006)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry/company/the-only-thing

## More from this book

> Senior Management may have been incompetent; it may have been corrupt; it was certainly full of assholes—but they were their incompetent, corrupt assholes.

p. 294 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry/company/senior-management-may.md)

> “What happened to sticking together? What happened to teamwork?” He gives Holly a dirty look.
>
> “Hey,” Holly says. “You know what Roger told me? He said there’s no such thing as teamwork. It’s a con. The company doesn’t promote teams. If you want to get ahead you have to screw everybody else and look after yourself. Co-workers are competitors. Roger told me the truth: there’s no I in team, but there’s no U, either!”

p. 237 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry/company/what-happened-to-sticking.md)

> Mona says bravely, “I can’t see how this will work. You can’t abolish Senior Management. Zephyr isn’t a democracy. It’s a corporation.”
>
> “I believe,” Klausman says, “that Jones is advancing the theory that those two concepts are not mutually exclusive.”

p. 289 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-barry/company/mona-says-bravely.md)