Recently I have been watching the West Wing a lot because someone got the season pack for me for graduation and I always loved the show when it was on. For those of you who didnt love the show or who never heard of the show it is about a fictional president and his senior staff and follows them through major events in, you guessed it, the West Wing.
One episode I saw had a very brief and minor subplot thrown in that I cant stop thinking about now. A company that manufactured computer chips had to recall all 80 million computer chips because of a problem in the design. The company has 75,000 people working for them and once all the chips were recalled it was foretold that the company would go bankrupt and all those americans would lose their jobs, hence it even being mentioned on the west wing. However the president decided to keep the contract with this company because he knew the CEO and believed he could recover. They brought the CEO into the white house and asked him how he planned on keeping everyone's jobs even after the recall. The CEO then stated that he would not be recieving a paycheck for two years and that all his senior management agreed to take paycuts before any person was laid off. Now that is a business I would be intrested in buying stock in. What do you think it would take for a CEO to declare that they arent taking pay for two years so that his employees could keep their jobs? I don't think it would ever happen because corporations could care less about the average worker and they only seem to care about their next pay check. So the West Wing gave me a little something to wish business were like. Is there anything we can do to make things like this story happen?
Have a nice day
T
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