Dickhead of the Week - Follow-Up - Rex Tillerson
Back in early April, Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson was granted the Dickhead of the Week honor here at B&E. He was at the top of a list of overpaid CEO's, and considering the gas prices, I thought he'd earned the honor. The weekly award, I thought, went well with his outrageous salary, which some sources had quoted to be as high as $13,700 an hour.
Most of my postings here at B&E receive a comment some time in the first few days it's up on the site, if they get a comment at all. Then the postings are forgotten. By me, too, usually. The Rex post, however, has garnered a few comments months later, including one today. The reason for this, I discovered (and think wrote about a couple of months ago), is that if you google (now lowercase according to Webster's) Rex, my B&E post is near the top of the second page of search results. Not bad.
Right, so back to today's comment. It's from anonymous (if that is indeed her name). I've pasted it here for your enjoyment...
His old position is still open - apply for it. Then put a price on moving every 18 months on your family and after moving them to a place they have no family or friends - leave to travel as it job required. He and his family have earned every damn penny of what he gets paid. Yes, I am close to them and if you want to take pot shots - come on we TEXAS gals know how to shoot back! We don't miss either!
The pot shot remark, I think, refers to another one of those several-months-after-the-fact comments I received, also from anonymous (if that is indeed his or her name) who recommended that Rex wear a bullet-proof vest to protect him from pot shots.
Violence is not condoned here at B&E, even for Dickheads.
In figuring out how to respond to today's anonymous, I consulted with a couple of friends. Reactions have ranged from "Just post her comment," to "Ask if she thinks all overpaid CEOs deserve their bags of gold, or just the ones she knows personally."
Heh. Nice one, Virgil.
What hurts me most about anonymous's post, though, is not that it's anonymous (although that hardly seems fair, since it doesn't take much work to find my name on B&E), or that she's a member of the entitled and idle rich, or even that she's from Texas (I lived in Texas as a kid, so I have the right to bad-mouth that shitty place).
No, what hurts me most is that she didn't take the time to clean up her comment. Grammatically it's a mess. She mistyped a couple of words. There are parts that need clarification.
Our anonymous friend of the Tillersons has done a remarkably poor job of defending a family that clearly suffers so much. The Tillersons should be very disappointed in you, anonymous. You leave them with no choice but to find comfort in their bank accounts.
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posted by Dan G @ 2:31 PM
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3 Comments:
Is that all the more it takes to EARN every damn penny of $13,000 and change per hour - that you and your family have to move every eighteen months? I'll take the job for one eight-hour day, please, and earn the same amount I'd get for teaching for three years.
After that, I suggest we give his job in alternating two hour shifts to illegal immigrants. After all, they've already moved to find advanced employment. The $26,000 would probably be more than they'll make in a year in the intermittent, menial labor jobs they can find here.
Wait a second...that's 1,040 who can make $26,000 a year for only two hours' worth of work. If we outsourced the labor of 100 similarly overpaid CEOs, we could give 104,000 jobs.
104,000 people who take the place of 100. That's not going to hurt competition for American jobs. And since they'd only have to be in the country for two hours that should allay the fears of the xenophobes that our country will become less American...
WTF? Did I just about solved the illegal immigration problem in America?
I have an uncle who moves his family every couple of years and who spends 5 out of 7 days a week on the road, at minimum. They are in PA and he just got sent to BRAZIL. He makes nice money but trust me it is no where near $13,000 an HOUR.
Tell the sob story about moving every 18 months to a 12 million dollar estate where, sure you don't know anyone in the neighborhood but you can fly all your old friends and family in on ONE of your private jets, to any one of the thousands of displaced people who are no where near their family and friends, who crap don't even know if they are still alive, who don't know where they will be tomorrow and if there will be any sort of home much less a 12 million dollar estate, and you see if they feel like some staunchy prick from Exxon is really deserving of $13,000 an hour... I'm going to say NO!
That was some reeeeeal nice shootin back there, anonymous insane Texas gal.
If I had some a those boots you anonymous insane Texas gals wear, I'd be a tremblin in em.
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