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Old 09-24-2007, 05:48 PM   #270
Clodfobble
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Originally Posted by DanaC
One difference is that, if you fuck up you'll get fired. If he fucks up he'll get quietly shuftied off the scene with a golden handshake to keep him warm. Given how many lives his decisions affect, and the high rewards he is given for coping with that responsibility, he should be made to fully carry its weight: paying the price when his decisions were in error.
In the companies I've worked for, it has been the opposite. Regular employees are put on probation, demoted, moved to another department... but I've seen, let's see--three different CEO's get fired from various places, and in two cases I felt they were taking the hit for things that were partly, but not entirely, their fault.
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