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Cat fold 525 Posted 7 years ago
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The system would get me
While the bureaucracy often frustrated me, I tried hard not to be a very visible critic of it—especially not to the higher-ups. By the early 1970s, I had started to think about the possibility of running GE. I actually said it in 1973 when I presumptuously wrote in my performance review that my long-range career objective was to become CEO. I was determined not to blow my dream by tilting at windmills. If I bitched and moaned about the system, the system would get me.
Could you tell me what "the system would get me" here means?
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The people who were running the system in the ways that I disapproved of would use those ways to punish me.
- The people who were running the system in the ways that I disapproved of would use those ways to punish me.
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The people who were running the system in the ways that I disapproved of would use those ways to punish me.
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