I don’t fully agree with the skepticism on lack of upper management willing to listen. While this is definitely an issue within any industry based off my experience it is in the minority of cases where these situations occur. This can mainly be attributed to the lack of leadership on upper management and a good indicator of this situation at companies is looking to see how high the turnover rate is. If you notice that there are many people coming in and going out you know there is probably not a good work culture there and situations that everyone described above are more likely to play out. In the end companies with a good work culture will recognize that it is better to listen to employees when faults are found in order to better mitigate future risk and this can benefit the employer and employee financially. The main disconnect I have noticed is that while working in industry many managers feel they do not receive enough compensation for their work because they look at the amount of money they saved the company compared to what they received as a bonus for their work that year. I don’t know if this is the best perspective to view things because there is no way you’re going to be rewarded fairly in that context. An example of this is one of my previous managers would calculate the savings he made the company which came out roughly to a couple million dollars, and his bonus was in the thousands for that year he was disappointed by this and held some resentment as well.