Job offer in hand

Well put. But, heads up... it's "sheer" not "shear." Otherwise, you are spot on about middle-management and, unfortunately that's not simply a condition which is isolated to Ortho or Med Devices Sales; it's a malignancy which presents itself in short-term results oriented sales operations who have the privilege of graduating classes of young blood coming into the market every spring. Anyway, you've made a good point nonetheless. As Alfred Lord Tennyson said:

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.