Comment on Water Boss Handed £270k Bonus Despite Parasite Outbreak
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 11 hours agoExecutive officers get large compensation because they have responsibility over the organisation.
That means that when “accidents happen”, they bear responsibility, and should not receive their bonuses and possibly should be fired.
If a potable water company is unable to deliver potable water to their customers, it’s a gross failure of the leadership to take all measures to ensure that the company does what it exists to do.
Gladaed@feddit.org 10 hours ago
You clearly misunderstood what I was saying.
It’s a charged topic so it makes sense. Frustrating nonetheless.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 10 hours ago
Can you expand on the point? If they can’t deliver water the CEO shouldn’t be paid out; that’s the point of the salary/bonus ratio.
Gladaed@feddit.org 10 hours ago
My point was that their pay is usually structured in a way that the base pay is a small percentage of their compensation and their bonuses are a virtually fixed part of their package and tied to company performance. They tend to not get any bonus when performing exceptionally poorly (e.g. going out of business). This means you get these bonus headlines even if they didn’t get a particularly big bonus at all and maybe even had their wage docked. These kinds of headlines are incendiary.
The magnitude of pay really does not matter much at all for this discussion.