This week I heard an interview between a top corporate executive and a financial analyst. The Exec was asked about the behavior of awarding executive bonuses to officers who had performed their duties negligently during a period of underperformance and unsound investment planning.
The Exec replied that being a corporate executive is to live a terrible lifestyle. He continued to say that the hours are terrible, the ass-kissing is terrible, the stress is terrible, the travel is terrible, and the Everything-about-being-a-filthy-rich-executive is terrible. Thusly, concluded this blow-hard weeping Sally, was the practice of awarding bonuses only fair. Shouldn't Execs be proportionately rewarded for weathering their terrible, terrible lifestyles?
The poor babies.
Meanwhile, President Obama has taken steps to enforce pay caps for all top executives receiving any taxpayer money from the Financial Bailout packages created by the catastrophe that Sally-CEO engineered. They'll have to figure out, now, how to live off only 1/2 of a million dollars for 2009, rather than living off of the usual Sky-Is-The-Limit.
Coming from a guy with three jobs and a running balance of OVERDRAWN, I really feel for these CEO's. This damned TARP has been pretty hard on all of us.
And the good news? 4 million uninsured children will now receive health care through an increase in the federal cigarette tax. Yes. It's true. Now is a good day to end my daily habit of sparking up. Sorry, kids, you won't be getting your health care from me. Let the execs pay for it with their Benson and Hedges.
1 comment:
i don't know why I even work this job!... oh hey Justin how's it going?
hahaha, I like this article. good stuff.
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