Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 08, 2015

A fancy new name for ‘scapegoat’…

Enjoy it while you can – you might as well have fun playing VP and watching the underlings scramble.

Well, I’ve loved being “VP of Everything Else”— anything the Grand Pooh-Bah didn’t want to do herself!

Back in the day I worked at a BIG, now defunct, bank in Chicago. The bank had this strange classification of employee called “officer”. It was the bank’s way of saying “We have bothered to learn your name”. When an employee in my section was promoted to officer he did not get a raise but the bank began deducting a fixed sum of money from his paycheck to pay for his lunch in the officer’s dining room. The deduction exceeded the amount that he had been spending on lunch. So he went to his wife and said: Honey, I have some good news and some bad news, I got a promotion and a pay cut.

And an early retirement.

Standing at the end of the plank… oops, I meant board is always a place of prominence.

Sounds more like a board on the seat.

I had a boss one time that seated people he didn’t like closer to the door. Made it easy to figure out where you stood.

Does the job come with golden parachute?

@Dour Scotsman,It comes with golden something but it’s not a parachute.

Sounds like his job is “PLEASE.” Provide Legal Exculpation and Sign Everything.

“The bad news is, I’ll probably be convicted .”

We used to joke about having a ‘VP in charge of going to jail’.

What is da ‘one for the team’? Well, from da comments, looks like a choice variety.

so funny

On the bright side, it comes with a great afterlife program!

At the worst of the blacklist, I actually suggested being hired for that office (minus the legal liability, of course). After all, they would be firing me after getting word from the blacklist anyway (two to three weeks), so why not have it out in the open, no surprises, and a nice letter of recommendation (for that job elsewhere) afterwards. No one took me up on it, preferring the dagger in the back, instead.

Install and ad-blocking extension on your browser. The most popular is AdBlock Plus, which I have installed on this computer. However, I’ve heard that the authors of ABP were bought out by google and the newest version is more an ad delivery mechanism than an ad blocker (only of ads that meet google’s high standards for good taste, of course), so caveat emptor. I know that the ABP I installed on my Android tablet six months ago was deactivated (with apparently no upgrade) in the most recent system update I made the mistake of installing.

I remember a head of security for a company that was convicted of wiretapping, and went to jail. His family was well cared for while he was gone and he had a job when he got out. Not all scapegoats are tossed aside.

Every organization Needs a Scapegoat.It’s just seldom does the job come with the appropriate Title.

Wallythe2That was more like a suicide.

The accounting company Arthur Andersen was effectively executed even before it was brought to trial – and the conviction was overturned, but the company is still out of business.