This story comes from an acquaintance.
The marketing director at their business is paid to travel around Alaska and make presentations. This involves a LOT of time in the air, as 90 percent of our towns and villages are not on a road system, and some of those towns are well over 600 miles away.
The marketing director went to the CEO yesterday, with a proposal to obtain additional schooling, to get their MBA. As my friend understands it, the conversation went something like this:
"Hey, boss - I've got an idea. I want to get my MBA, which would help me make better decisions and so on, about the company. So what I need to do is to stop traveling so much, and spend more time in the office where I can study.
"And oh yeah, all this commercial airline time is really expensive I know, but my spouse is a pilot, so she could fly me wherever I need to go. All you'd have to do is pay for the flight time. And the fuel and such. You know."
So my friend asked me, "As a manager who's handled a staff, and oversees company expenses, how would handle this one?"
I told him it's easy. The marketing director wasn't hired to become a student, but to make presentations at remote locations, selling a service that the company provides. That director was NOT hired to become a full-time student. And the company isn't there to pay for someone's private airplane, fuel, and insurance.
That makes it easy. The decision is, "Do your job - the one for which we hired you - or clean out your desk and go home."
Sheesh. Where do these people come from?
Psalm 22:27-28: “All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. For the kingdom is the Lord's, and he ruleth among the nations.”
3 comments:
Pretty sure he'd make the short list of people that will need to go if business gets slow.
Entitlement babies. Blame our stupid generation of boomers that raised these knuckleheads. I praise the Lord that my 'kids' didn't turn out that way. HE made sure that I worked like a horse and passed that ethic on to the offspring!
Got to agree with you on this one. It's a business, not a study hall. And even if the commercial flying is more expensive than paying for his wife's fuel and such, it's a lot less expensive than the liability if her pond hopper drops into the bushes and their kids sue the company.
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