Dear God woman, is there anything else you'd like to compare with your pet hate, which SEEMS to be seniority? So far you've included gays, the greens, labour government, liberal government, the EU carbon tax and other subjects in your rants about seniority, fairness and god knows what else. We get you don't like it. Did they have seniority when you joined the company? Thought so. If you're half as good as you seem to think you are, why don't you pack up and join the opposition, just like GK did. I joined a company that already had seniority. I considered it, and still went ahead. I have no complaints. As I have already pointed out, some seniority systems work fine. You simply shouldn't presume that everyone else believes what you do.