I don’t think I could ever be a company director because I like the simple things in life. Things like reading the newspaper, listening to drive time radio and watching TV. The media seems to be designed to bring up issues to make a director’s life a misery. They continually generate corporate governance problems. To demonstrate, let’s pretend I am a director of a large public company.
Driving to work and I hear on the radio that an Islamic chap who worked in a warehouse has been awarded $25,000 for discrimination. Apparently, his co-workers could pronounce names like Kournikova and Evangelista when they chose to. However, when they wanted him to come to the warehouse office it was easier to page him as “Bomb Chucker to the office”. The guy copped this abuse from
everybody and eventually he resigned and took legal action. As a director of a
public company, I am starting to wonder about our warehouses.
At work I meet with the CEO to discuss the next Risk and Audit committee and mention the bomb chucker story. The comment “bloody idiots” is some sort of comfort. In the afternoon I call the Human Resources Manager and ask for some background.
