Monday, October 21, 2013

In charge and not responsible

Doesn't it irk you when important people like your boss, CEO's/ administrators aren't taking their job seriously.  Well why should they, other people in similar positions aren't held responsible?  That ethic of responsibility apparently went away 25 years ago.

Look at the 2008 market collapse and how the bailout worked.   No one important in the banking, wall-street or other stepped down, big business were propped up and able to keep with the same people in charge.

Compare that to how Lee Iacocca turned around Chrysler in the early 1980s. He reduced his own salary to $1 a year, calling it “equality of sacrifice.” Other executive salaries were cut up to 10% as part of approaching Congress for the Loan Guarantee Act that helped enable the company to survive.

And the recent government shutdown of 2013 stemming from two chambers of Congress failing to agree to an appropriations continuing resolution.  Once again, people in important positions (lawmakers) who are not doing their job well, cause a whole slue of negative effects to everyone downstream while they still continue to draw a paycheck and retain their positions afterwards.

Sadly, but not surprisingly, that same mentality has trickled down into the school systems.  As evident by the August 2013 Press Gazette article, titled "School Administrators Raises Outpace Teachers."





It's just plain disgusting.

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