Monday, November 09, 2009

Ya But.....Does Anybody Actually Believe That Mr. Hahn Can Run A Hamburger Stand?

ComparatorsAreForChumps
FriesInYourEyesVille



So.

It all over the Interwebz that British Columbia's Comptroller General thinks that BC Ferries Co. CEO David Hahn is way overpaid at a cool million, plus, per year.

Apparently, the real problem is that the board and the attendant executive lackeys pretty much get to set their own compensation and ridiculously slack-eyed bonus benchmarks with relative opacity.

But the thing that I find most bizarre is the comparators that were used by these geniuses.

Specifically, they were not other public, or even private, transporation companies.

Instead, they decided they should be compared to the Captains of BranchPlant Industry that run highly complex sugar and water operations (eg. Coca Cola) and hamburger stands (eg. Macdonalds).

Which begs the question.....

Does this mean that Mr. Hahn already knows how to say:

"Do you want fries with that?"

Or will he have to learn it, from scratch, when we finally send him packing with the strings from his most crispy and golden parachute dangling between his legs?



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Meanwhile, again, the price for a family of four and a regular-size car to and from the big island, return, is now $220, round-trip on a weekend (fries - fat Toigo, not skinny Kroc version- not included)....As our good friend GAB likes to say, "Fares up, ridership down.....Give Davey-Boy another hundred tho'!"...Or some such thing.

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