Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Clearly, I Don't Understand Corporate America

So, this will be a quickie....


I won't say the name of the company for employment reasons, but one of the (many) failed companies in the news lately, that the government is bailing out, used to be one of my best clients at work.

Said company took AMAZING, very expensive trips. Examples:

1. Baltic Sea Cruise to Russia; Sweden; Copenhagen & Estonia on a very pricey cruise line

2. Trip to Germany & the Czech Republic

3. High end business meeting at the Bellagio in Las Vegas

4. Trip to Barcelona, Spain

These above mentioned trips were in the last 2 years alone, and only the ones that I was lucky enough to work. There was a lot of other incentive travel with this company and its subsideraries that I didn't go on!


O.K. The ignorance part.....

Explain to me, a lowly citizen with, admittedly, no real grasp on the inner workings on the American corporate economic ways, how said company is now in need of a MAJOR governmental buyout. And if this financial failure has been looming, why were they still spending millions and millions of dollars on incentive trips for their employees?

Just wondering.....

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