"Management personnel are also employees, aren't they? Or is it different in the P.R.C.?"
To answer your question, technically, yes. At the upper levels, they are also thieves.
At my company (AA) management writes the checks and determines the amount. They gave us a big paycut and then took $300 million for themselves. This has created prodigious amounts of bad juju amongst the employees.
What, are you a manager or something? If so, enjoy this life...the next one won't be pretty.
Back to the thread.....I'm ecstatically happy at work as long as I don't think about the afore-mentioned BS.