Mean girls and boys at work

I just have to get something off my chest—what's left of it. I work for a company that is more hierarchy-conscious than a high school full of mean girls. If you run into a higher-status employee in the elevator, in the cafeteria line, on the damn subway, that person will pretend he or she doesn't know you, even if you saved his or her reputation yesterday by correcting an egregious error that would have made him or her look like an ass, which he or she is. That's all I have to say about that.