Happyfarm:
It is not a hard concept to understand at all, and I am sure we all get the "law of the jungle" aspect to corporate life. What is a very hard pill to swallow is when a CEO deliberately places a company in a non-viable position, siphons the profits off to his mates, lies to all and sundry, creates a paper trail so complex that no one can prove where the money went, fvcks the livelihoods of an entire company and then cries poor with the requisite request for a government bailout. In years to come, the brazen rape of Qantas will become a thing of folklore and everyone will wonder "how was it allowed to happen".
That is more akin to a sacrificial offering than, corporate reality.