Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Just who is responsible -- for anything?
Lately a couple of columnists have complained about Katie Couric being too much of a lightweight to make it as a major network anchorperson. Who are they kidding? When is the last time an anchorperson, or a celebrity of any professional stripe, did any real reporting? Network news anchors are part of the same aristocracy (it has nothing to do with merit) that stands most visibly at the head of any modern enterprise. Anchorpeople don't do their own work, any more than national politicians do.
It used to be -- or people like me used to think -- that higher pay, shorter hours and more support staff came with a corresponding increase in personal and official responsibility. Those of us with harder, lower paying jobs were satisfied with our part in the arrangement because we didn't have to answer for other people's actions and variable results. Now we come to discover that the people "in charge" are not responsible for anything. In fact, they spend most of their energy finding underlings to take the blame when things don't go according to plan.
So remind me why it is they make more money to do less work....
It used to be -- or people like me used to think -- that higher pay, shorter hours and more support staff came with a corresponding increase in personal and official responsibility. Those of us with harder, lower paying jobs were satisfied with our part in the arrangement because we didn't have to answer for other people's actions and variable results. Now we come to discover that the people "in charge" are not responsible for anything. In fact, they spend most of their energy finding underlings to take the blame when things don't go according to plan.
So remind me why it is they make more money to do less work....
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I've wondered the same thing recently as Illinois Democratic treasurer nominee Alexi Giannoulias tried to explain why he didn't know his bank was giving loans to the mob. If you take the news too seriously it can really drive you crazy-but if you just open the door and listen to the birds and enjoy the forsythia blooming you can just ignore them all. Corruption is eveywhere and always has been and always will be...that's life. @)->>--
I was just thinking about some of the execs that rosebud and I have had the distinct pleasure of working for. An interesting lot...a cruel little queeny man who once tried to make us take unpaid vacations because they went over budget on payroll....a depressive who clearly got his job because he was tall and prematurely grey....and a large bulldozer of a woman who once told me, "It doesn't matter if you do your job. All that matters is if other people like you."
And that's why America's heading to hell in a handbasket!
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And that's why America's heading to hell in a handbasket!
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