But at least the store clerks aren't getting multi-million-dollar
salaries plus additional multi-million-dollar handshakes when it is
found that they don't have a clue how to make the company profitable.

"Perce"
(aka Alan NV8A)

On 02/20/06 05:51 pm Mr Fed UP wrote:

Heh!! What make you think it is only the CEO's?
This last year before Mom passed away I had to go to a
drugstore (where they are SUPPOSE to be educated)
and it took 4 trips to get one prescription filled correctly. I find the
same incompetence at nearly every turn of the consumer
trail. I am not even sure they require a reading and
writing skill anymore. If you guess you way through all
the "computer applications" the stores have, your in.
Stores with workers wearing "How may I help you" on
their work clothes and then rush past you like you
were not even there. Ok.... let me see if this spell
checker works.....

Guess I'm aging myself. This was back in 1983-1986. LOL
Yes, that was back when they had BOTH...
1) Good help (folk who knew a resistor from their elbow)
2) Actual corporate cognizance of what the electronics
business is. In the last few years, it seems to me that the management
in Texas doesn't know (or care) whether
they are in the electronics business, or selling fried
chicken or furniture.

US companies (*perhaps* companies in other countries too, but probably to
a lesser extent) don't care whether their CEOs know anything about their
particular products or services. Someone can go from a fast-food co. to a
computer co., to an automobile manufacturer, to a health-care corporation,
all the while knowing very little about the specifics of the industry and
getting a salary and benefits many times (hundreds of times?) more than
the CEO of a European company who actually has a degree in electrical
engineering or whatever is relevant to the company's products.