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Responsibility implies consequences. “I take responsibility, so I’m returning my dividends from the last two years and making my salary 0 until things improve”
by otikik 4y ago
Responsibility implies consequences.
“I take responsibility, so I’m returning my dividends from the last two years and making my salary 0 until things improve”
- Leherenn 4y agoPlaid doesn't pay dividends and his salary is most likely peanuts compared to his shares in the company, whose valuation just tanked.
- otikik 4y agoThat’s not the point. The point is that “I take responsibility” is like “You all have my thoughts and prayers”. All talk, no substance. It’s better to say nothing than to say empty things, when people are losing their jobs.
- subradios 4y agoWould this move the needle on layoffs or the business or merely satisfy a desire for moral dessert? One team of engineers costs between one and three million dollars a year.
- otikik 4y agoNot a native English speaker here. I’m not familiar with the expression “moral dessert”, but it sounds bad. I will try to explain. Words are important. “I take full responsibility” means what, exactly? To me it sounds incomplete. Like the phrase “you are very important to me”. There’s something missing there. “You are very important to me, so I will make sure this doesn’t happen again”. Or, “I will try to flush the toilet after I pee on it”. Something. Ok, you take full responsibility, so what?