"Carrier people think too much", or in which senior management discounts market-driven functional specifications put forth by product managers to create product as they see fit. A PM friend of mine (we'll call him Darnell) just came out of a steering committee meeting for the next version of his product. By the time I got around to speaking with him, he was beyond pissed; I think he had reached that level of conciousness that Buddist monks study years to attain- he had become an anti-dalai lama of sorts.

Where to begin... An astute co-worker commented that Oceans, "combined all the bone-headed business decisions of a startup with the entrenched politics of an established, bureaucratic company." I hope that these corporate amuse bouche will keep one or two of you interested while keeping me sane.