In a way you're better off than I am -- I'm already accustomed to being surrounded by these assholes. (Didn't say I accept it though.) Keep the faith buddy, seems like simply doing things right ought to give the doer a huge advantage, right? Well we can debate whether that's true in the real world, or we can just refuse to believe it's otherwise and see what happens. You seem to be in a go-for-broke situation. You probably need to reach past several layers of shitty middle managers to reach the CEO who agrees with you that things ought to simply be done right. Get some support from the top. Or if you don't succeed at that, maybe you have to get the hell out of there. Obviously getting used to the "new normal" isn't an attractive option - life's too short. But that's coming from the middle. Those people don't like reformers, but they do respond well to having their asses kicked by their supposed superiors!