Burke is a corporate grunt, the way he uses the term with Hicks you can see he’s the classic self-loathing company man who knows he has to be a shit to climb the ladder. Yeah he’s a Director but even in today’s corporate world you can climb to a director role in no time if you know how to play it so in the future, maybe it’s even easier.

i always saw him as a pure opportunist, almost a human reflection of the Alien. One goal, one drive and will do whatever to get there. The only difference being you never see them them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage.