Loyalty is claimed to be as a core CSW value. (L-3 management suggests that we be “loyalty to each other” wink, wink) But, you can tell a whole lot more about a company by their actions rather than their slogans. A few years back, our greasy conman president, Val Snyder sold out L-3 CSW to work for a direct competitor, CUBIC. Years later, his selection to become the President of CSW is very telling concerning actual L-3 values. His ascendance to lead CSW would be comparable to NSA choosing Eric Snowden to run the agency, or promoting Benedict Arnold to lead the Continental Army.
One can only construe that the guys up at Corp. prefer greedy little weasels and their narcissistic values for top leadership positions. Sure the leaderships arrogant, incompetent and malfeasant behavior is harmful to morale, performance, and the little things like lack of profit, but these are executives; it’s clear that the worker bee employees and their families don’t matter whatsoever. Executives are not accountable for misdeeds and disloyalty; instead, they are rewarded.
The lesson is clear, if you want to get ahead at L-3 CSW, whatever you do, don’t be a loyal hard working fool, that doesn’t matter at L-3! Be a self-indulgent traitor. Be like Val! Learn as much as you can about L-3’s intellectual property, then, look to leverage your career by selling that knowledge to any DoD communication system house wanting to break into the L-3 dominated market. Then, when they start getting wise to you, get a job at any beltway bandit claiming you know all about the DoD communications market. And that will eventually lead you back to working with L-3, where you can now claim you know about the competition, without ever having to really do anything. Oh, and wear a large zirconium earring and put lots of grease in your hair. The Corp guys really like that too.