Corporations keep America running

I was very intrigued by the column "Why I Hate Corporate America" by Brian Zell (March 19). Certainly, Zell feels strongly about the evils of corporate America, but I wonder if he has ever worked for one, or if he even knows what a corporation is? Zell's inability to grasp that HBO, which produces his much-loved "Sopranos," is a corporation leaves me questioning his basic knowledge on this point.\nI am a former graduate student who, as people like Zell have put it, sold my soul to corporate America. Worse yet, I work for an insurance company. How can I live with myself?\nI work in loss control for an insurance company that deals with the trucking industry. This means that I spend most of my day finding new and better ways to make trucks run safely on our roads. Nearly everything that Americans consume travels at some point on trucks -- food, clothing, computers, the construction materials that build our homes and the things with which we furnish them. As it turns out, trucking companies are part of corporate America, and so are the people that make everything that trucks carry.\nI evaluate and train drivers and managers to make sure that they do not have accidents. When they do have accidents, we provide quick service to get their trucks back on the road in a timely manner. When people are hurt in these accidents, we pay for their expenses so they can get on with their lives.\nWhen I do this well, I get a bonus and a raise. When this doesn't work, I don't get a bonus and I get a smaller raise. I help the world, and when I do it well, I get money. This sounds more evil with every sentence.\nI could have stayed in graduate school, where my wife and I worked five jobs between us and could barely make $25,000 a year, and had minimal health benefits. Instead, I work for corporate America. When I drive home in my company car, fresh from a meeting where I helped truckers operate safely, watching student loans decreasing instead of increasing, I know that I'm in the right place.\nBy the way, if Zell has that much trouble finding a good bank, he should try the IU Credit Union. They are really nice there, but they'll still ask to see ID.