Jophiel wrote:
Torrence wrote:
Have you ever seen that show undercover boss? These guys can't do the jobs their employees do
To be fair, that's part of why you hire other people. I wouldn't expect the president of the company I work for (commercial landscape) to be fully capable in everything from certified payroll to repairing dump trucks. This is a smallish company though and he's at least fluent enough in each to have a conversation -- I imagine it's worse in a major company hiring thousands of employees. But does the CEO of Caterpillar really need to know how to put the tracks on a bulldozer?
Am I a Big Business Conservative now?
Edited, May 2nd 2014 11:30am by Jophiel You're right, but that's kind of my point. He can't do certain jobs, but others can. Why is the CEO worth so much more than the people he has to get to do these other, often more strenuous, jobs? My comment was regarding the pay disparity, mostly. Sure, some of these guys put in a lot of hours. So do their employees. In fact, America is at the top of the list as far as hours worked in a day\week, but only *some* jobs seem to carry *importance*.
Maybe it was a bad example considering the context of the post I was responding to, but CEO pay quadrupling over the last few years while we can't even get a 3 dollar an hour minimum wage increase through the senate... it's just sour.