middleofnowhere

Seeing corporate big wigs roll around in their piles of money is hard enough for the front line grunts to handle at the best of times. Throw in the huge bonuses these people give themselves for running companies into the ground also makes most of us want to throw up all over their 500 dollar shoes.

Where things go seriously wrong is when the powers that be coerce those people whose salaries are fractions of their own to publically say how great they are.

Recently in my province of NB there has been a lot of questioning and criticism of NB Power and their head honcho David Hay. Suddenly, a form letter appeared, supposedly written by the front line grunts telling the media to back off and how wonderful Mr. Hay was and how he was being victimized by the media. Only this letter wasn’t, in fact, written by staff. It was written by execs, who then took it to staff and asked them to sign it. Of course, they didn’t have to sign it. Why feel pressure to sign the letter while sitting in a small room with your boss who has asked you to do it?

Brutal.

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