These are young, smart people who work at the bottom of the opinion-forming food chain.
And yet people still wonder why we, working at the bottom, aren't putting our souls into our jobs.
So there is a growing gap between the people who work at the bottom and understand the little things, and the people on the top".
"Seattle is a high-price, high-wage town and highly educated, so the number of people working at the bottom of the skill distribution is smaller.
Jacques caught me pushing one of mine with a thumb one day when I was working at the bottom of the slide.
The entrepreneurs working at the bottom of the business pyramid crafted the first wave of Sino-Indian economic engagement, often taking huge risks and working under regimes unfavorable to conduct of business.
In Tracie McMillan's (excellent) new book, "The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table," the author goes undercover to work at the bottom of the American food chain.
Another classic path for companies looking to work at the bottom of the pyramid is to strip down a product, removing many of the extra features that consumers at the top of the pyramid might expect.
I work at the bottom of the judicial food chain, in juvenile court, and the clients I represent there, abused and neglected children, have the least clout of any in the legal system.
Some were forced to work at the bottom rung of the Nazi killing machine — as diggers of mass graves, cooks who fed Nazi soldiers and seamstresses who mended clothes stripped from the Jews before execution.
"I watch an endless assembly line," she writes, "a large-scale mash-up that hits the sweet spot between McDonald's and Sandra Lee's 'Semi-Homemade Cooking.' " Much of the friction in "The American Way of Eating" comes from Ms. McMillan's writing about being a woman — and an unmarried white one, to boot — working at the bottom rungs of the food industry.
