#3 - Acme Corporation offers unskilled workers excellent

[Adam Tyson]

20 years to go from the bottom of an organization to the top is actually pretty good! How long do you think it would take for a lowly private in the army to make it to General? How long would you expect a brand new teacher in her first year to take to make it to Dean at a large university? It's the fact that a path for advancement exists that can take you from a no-skills worker all the way to President that matters. The correct answer should raise doubts about whether that path actually exists or not. The correct answer is telling us that it's just an illusion: these folks didn't start at the bottom because they had no skills. Ms. Garon is not a representative sample of assembly line workers. There's no longer any reason to believe that any regular worker could make it from the assembly line to the boardroom.