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Of course you do. That doesn't mean you see the organization as it is. The union cops I knew would have said exactly what you said. I was investigating a brutality complaint and a young officer who had to have seen what happened was swearing he was looking somewhere else through the entire incident. Finally he said, "If I told you what I saw, no one would talk to me, no one would go to coffee with me."
Organizations have no soul. They don't have what people have that makes them kind and generous and honest and decent. I submitted a plan to have clerks work from home. I thought it was a good plan to help young mothers, especially single mothers. The personnel director got very excited about my plan but pointed out the things I missed. We could make them contract employees and we wouldn't have to give them sick leave or vacation time. We wouldn't have to provide them with health insurance. Some of the other "team players" cheered him on. I trashed the plan.
Organizations are basically bad, but necessary. They can destroy good people and good people rarely change the organization.
The Red Cross is an organization. So are elemantary school teachers, wine growers and the Church. You worked in a crappy one apparently and it has tainted you.