72 THE TRUTH Employees Spend Too Much Time Politicking

• What is going on with corporate America?
• Many companies have huge amounts of contractors
• It's probably because regular FTEs spend most of their day politicking, schmoozing, and covering their asses
• Contractors, on the other hand, are just there to get the job done
• Google is 50% contractors: they do all the work
• Normal FTEs don't actually do any work - they just network and schmooze
• This is the American dream? Big job at big corporate is 90% politics
• If you care more about doing the work than politicking, then be a contractor
• FTEs are only incentivized by promotion by schmoozing and networking