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Happy New Year!
Ahhh! The new year. A fresh start. A clean slate. A new beginning. There is always so much hope and promise attached to the new year. So far we are off to a good start. The sun is shining. I'm in love with a great guy and he reciprocates. There's food in my belly, a roof over my head. BOB NARDELLI RESIGNED TODAY. The only thing that would make this year perfect would be for Bush and Cheney to resign. Yea I know, I'm fantasizing again. Or am I?
As close as my co-workers and I came to dancing in the aisles after the Democrats won the House and Senate, we were really cutting loose when word came down that Bob Nardelli resigned today. It's about time!!! Don't let that door hit you in the ass on your way out.
Now why is Catty celebrating the misfortune of another human being? Misfortune? PLEASE!! The man was making 10 million a year. That number alone sickens me. His ideas and business management style were NOT worth 10 million dollars a year. I don't think there is anyone on this planet that commands that kind of compensation. World leaders don't make that kind of money, and they shouldn't. There is no excuse for that kind of excess.
That kind of excess breeds contempt from the workers who go out everyday selling the products and know how that pull in the profit. That kind of compensation is disrespectful to every loyal employee who has been asked to do more for less to save the company money and help it grow. If the board of directors wants to save the company money and help it grow, I've got a few suggestions for them.
First, get rid of anyone who makes more than $500,000 a year. Before you start crying about how you'll never find quality leaders who will work for less than half a mill a year, SHUT UP. You have education, talent, and leadership throughout this company. I'll bet that almost all of your employee's would jump at a fraction of that compensation. You'll gain the respect of the workers and put some integrity back into corporate America.
Second, start utilizing the suggestions of the little people. Everyday we see waste. Forests of paperwork that gets looked at then thrown away. Employees doing overlap work. We have a million of them. Examples and suggestions that is.
Third, go back to using and selling local products. This is the ultimate trickle down economy. You have stores in so many different countries think of how their local economies would prosper if you were using products made locally. You do wonderful local charitable projects, keep that up and support the local businesses and manufacturers too.
Fourth, practice ethics and standards. If you are going to talk the talk, walk the walk. Huh?? Practice what you preach. Do not hold your employees to one standard while you hold customers to another. You know what I'm talking about, if you don't, leave your e-mail address in my mailbox and I'll give you a detailed explanation. It is demoralizing to the people who work for you when they feel they are being screwed and can't do anything about it.
If you are tempted to do one last shady unethical thing, you can yank that 210 million severance package out from under Bob. Yea you read that right. Think you might feel guilty doing that? GET OVER IT!! You have a country full of retirees that can tell you about working a lifetime in mines, steel mills, air transportation etc., for pennies of what you paid Bob, who have had their pensions reduced or taken away. I think Bob will be just fine without the 210 million.
What the hell were you thinking??? The rest of us workers know we have to do a good job or we get fired. If we quit we better have another job lined up. That is like 350,000 workers giving up a paycheck to get rid of one asshole.
Hey, you can make me shut the fuck up and find new employment for a paltry million. Cash. I'll even come to Atlanta to pick it up. Assholes. And you wonder why employee morale is so low?
While I agree with you whole heartedly, did you forget the bar of soap? So
what do you know that you're not spelling out? I'm dying of curiosity.
I'm pissed off, Honey's pissed off, there are so many people who are angry
over this. What kind of contribution could one person make that would
entitle them to that kind of money? He hasn't found the answer to world
hunger. He hasn't saved peoples lives. He's a flim flam artist who's
conned some gullible board members and corporate types into thinking he was
the shit while they willingly handed him a fortune from the sweat of people
who did the hard work.
BRAVO Catty. BRAVO. Great post. I've been searching for these words that
you have laid out so well. I was actually thinking about the chief
executive at Goldman who's estimated to get $50MM in his bonus. I spent
more than a few moments discussing this over the holidays and I was quite
suprised at how many people thought it was okay. If you cured every type
of cancer, maybe. Or if you whipped world peace out of your hat.
Otherwise? No dice. Great post. I loved it.
What makes him so special? The fact that he can organize things so that
he makes a boatload of money, I guess. He does it because he can and
he has no scruples against it--and as long as he's also making money for
the stockholders, people like him will continue to make boatloads of money
while everyone else (and to some extent because everyone else)
makes far less.
It boggles my mind as far as what salaries these people make. Thankfully we
have outlets such as our blogs, that like minded people will navigate to.
When will the common people wake up and fight back? Perhaps we can start a
national strike against one company at a time! Problem is not enough
people care enough to do anything I think! Great post!
Bravo, bravo. Tell them like it is!
Um...here's a humble teacher who would willing take just a tiny piece of
that.
Yo Cat.
Tell us how you really feel. :-) The machine needs us more than it needs
the Bobs of this world. If we practiced some solidarity and shut down the
machine these type of "abuses" would cease.
La Dolce Vita,
Ciao, JWL