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?
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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