Saturday, July 29, 2006

What will we do when all the Chinese come?

Breaking from my tradition of ripping off song lyrics for subject lines, this one was yesterdays quote of the day from work... Without getting into the mundane details of how this phrase came about, Lets just say its amazing that we let some people operate million dollar airplanes.

Lets talk about waste... its big news that theres lots of corporate greed in America. Everyone has heard about the Enron scandal and how CEO's are raping their companies, driving them bankrupt, and then leaving with millions of dollars as a "thankyou". Well.. here at Whiskey Oscar Alpha the rank and file are up in arms. Most the employees in the building here haven't had a raise in 5 years. OK, fine, but the company is making millions in profit... unusal for an airline... and what comes out in the news a couple days ago?? Executive pay up 16%. Wow... a 16% raise in one year?? And wait theres more... the big bosses bonus was 130% of his salary.

Now I'm a firm believer in take it if you can get it, but how can one person tell an entire building of individuals theres no money for a cost of living adjustment when you get a $400,000 bonus? Thats just dishonest. I'm also a firm beleiver that dishonest people suck. And I still haven't figured out what most these CEOs do? I get mission statements every year for the company, and they're always something i could have copied out of a college business text book (serisously, i think some of them are). My own company seems to be on autopilot... (forgive the aviation reference). No one here seems to be making any big deicsions or really planning for more than next year (and only that far to ensure a 150%). SO for the man incharge fo the place thats allowed his company to be delisted frm the stock exchange, loss of shareholder value, questionable corporate purchases, and a money lossing quarter for the first time in 4 years... less give hive a half million $$$ bonus!

And well.. I suppose u can do that when your major customer is paying you to fly and empty airplane from the middle east, to a small island in the Mediterranean, to Germany, and back to Turkey. Yes... empty plane... all over southern Europe.. we're getting paid to do this... alot. (I'm being sort of non descript I know, i don't want to be accused of violating our corporate secrets policy). Amazing!

OK, now for something more positive, its saturday... all the kids are in town. We're gonna have good times this after noon. I can't wait. I was driving yesterday and drove by a couple local high schools and outside i saw the busses and semis and RV's of a couple drum corps. I stopped, and got out and listened to some reheasals... it was neat, bringing back fond memories. Good good times!!

Thats it, tis all I got... Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend!!

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