from: Bloodstone43956@i-mail.irs
to: Raventrap39996@i-mail.irs
date: 7518.21126
My Dear Raventrap ~
You asked about “The Corporation.” Obviously, there is only so much I can tell you, because the origins of The Corporation are purposefully kept vague and most of the details are shrouded in secrecy. So far, Our Executive has authorized only minimal disclosure. However, I’m able to provide enough information to fill one I-mail. I’m afraid ~ literally ~ that’s all can do.
A long time ago, Our Competitor and Our Executive were business partners. Well, not partners, exactly, more like an Owner and his CEO. It seems they had a disagreement about the direction the business was heading. Our Competitor, for reasons unknown to us, began to be interested in such misbegotten ideas as “love,” “generosity,” “cooperation,” and “forgiveness,” while Our Executive remained true to the original mission: universal domination. From what I have been able to surmise, it all came down to a difference of opinion. Our Executive interpreted the core values of the business as being survival, competition, acquisition, and in the end, a winner-take-all scenario. I believe humans call this a monopoly. Our Competitor, on the other hand, thought He already had a monopoly, since He made everything ~ which of course seemed presumptuous to Our Executive. Since Our Competitor felt secure in His “monopoly,” He insisted we treat the insignificant human scum more like equals, and even decided to give them freedom of choice ~ like us! What an insult! Confident that humans ought to be entirely the property of the partnership, clearly Our Executive could not abide this decision.
In short, Our Competitor somehow concluded that the “loving thing to do” was to provide humans with freedom of choice, so the little animals would be free to choose to be like Him or not. He thus gave up His ability to make them do as He wished. As Our Executive already knew, free choice, or free will, as it’s sometimes called, would mean He also was free ~ to build his Corporate Empire through acquisition. Any human contract could become His if He could figure out a way to take it. Regardless of the non-compete agreement in place, Our Executive slammed the door and left the partnership so quickly some have even insinuated He was fired. He merely left to seek more rewarding business opportunities and immediately founded The Corporation.
So, now The Corporation competes head-to-head with what remains of Our Competitor’s Company. You may have heard some young tempters jeeringly refer to His “Little Co-op.” Our Executive expects us to use all the guile we can muster to compete for the hearts, minds, and contracts of our clients, even as Our Competitor wants to foster faith, reason, critical thinking, cooperation, kindness, and love ~ qualities He mistakenly believes will lead our clients to choose Him rather than Our Executive. We clearly have the advantage here.
As to how The Corporation is organized. You know well, Raventrap, our organization chart is fundamentally lowerarchical. Practically speaking, it’s a mirror image of Our Competitor’s structure. The lower one descends on the corporate ladder, the more power and rewards accrue to him. The greatest prizes are reserved for the one-percent, those favored tempters who have made it into the lowest, most inner circle of the lowerarchy. These are on Our Executive’s Select Staff (aka, the SS) and have earned the right to take what is rightfully theirs. They have made the most of themselves, and their wealth is not to be shared, but envied by all the others. I am justifiably proud to have made it to the rank of Assistant to a Division Director ~ I’m not permitted to divulge which one.
The organization chart isn’t difficult to understand. The chain-of-command looks like this:
Level 1: Legions of Tempters
Level 2: Undervisors & Assistants
Level 3: Department Heads & Assistants
Level 4: Underintendants & Assistants
Level 5: Division Directors & Assistants
Level 6: Vice-Presidents & Assistants ~ appointed for their expertise in vices
Level 7: Our Executive and His Inner Circle
Of course, Levels 2-7 are also populated with secretaries for official positions and innumerable contracts acquired in the course of everyday business and consumed as nourishment, according to the position of the tempter. The most succulent of these are of course reserved for officers in the lowest levels of The Corporation. I assume your ambition drives you to achieve one of the lowest stations in due course. Know that the competition is indeed fierce and only the fittest survive. How do you think Our Executive keeps His position?
Your Devoted Cousin,
Bloodstone
MurrayWorks 