Thursday, March 26, 2009

A sense of fairness

Americans are outraged at the bonuses being paid to the top executives of AIG's financial products. Here are people who took big bets, lost and felt that they should be retained with fat bonuses to clean up the mess. The public felt that this is so unfair.

There was another past incidents were the Americans were outraged. President's Clinton's plane, Air Force One, was delayed in taking off, as the President was having his hair cut. The barber has to complete the job, get off the plane, before it could take off. This caused a delay in the departure of many flights. The public was outraged. They felt that it was inconsiderate of President Clinton to cause so much inconvenience to other people.

Our leaders in the corporate world and in government has to learn to respect the ordinary people, and be considerate to them. They should display a sense of humility and fairness. They cannot act arrogantly and regard the ordinary people as "lesser mortals".
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3 comments:

David said...

This is because these people are above the rules! Or they know the limits of the law so they go to the extreme possible without consequences.

Human nature is at its worst if they know they can do something without consequences! Or they can control or eliminate the consequences!

March 26, 2009 7:59 PM
Joshua Wong said...

for a second opinion, read this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/25/opinion/25desantis.html?_r=1

March 27, 2009 6:12 AM
Jackie said...

Once at a community event, the Minister was late. There were old people who had been invited to watch the performance but were not allowed to enter, eventually they got tired and sat on the floor. When the Minister, the band played, he was ushered with great ceremony to his seat. Security kept him separate from us, the public. The old people and us had to find our way in. No apology, no explanation. It was all about the Minister even though 100's of volunteers had taken their weekend off, waited in the hot sun, as part of "community service".

A few months later, I saw the PRIME Minister in Australia at an event. The public there called him by first name, he acknowledged them waving and smiling. There was no stiff ceremony. There was no lack of respect from the public but there was also real affection and cordial feelings.

Singapore government VIP's have forgotten that they serve the people, not the other way around. And the police etc need to be reminded that it is we who pay their salaries.

March 27, 2009 11:40 PM

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