This makes me glad that I’m a regular customer:
On CNBC, the founder of Home Depot blasted Barack Obama and his administration as a collection of tenured dilettantes who have never had to meet a payroll in their lives. Greg Hengler offers a couple of juicy excerpts from his appearance, especially when Marcus starts “apologizing” for having created over 300,000 jobs through the kind of entrepreneurship that the current White House wants to discourage.
I don’t think that Obama was tenured, though. And I hope he’ll be out of a job himself in a couple years.
This makes me glad that I’m a regular customer
Same here.
I don’t think that Obama was tenured, though. And I hope he’ll be out of a job himself in a couple years.
Ugly fact is that Obama could easily get tenure now that he’s been president. Some university will want the cachet of having a real, live ex-president on their staff.
Bottom line is that as long as the parasites get to make the rules, we’ll always have people who couldn’t run a business, if their life depended on it, tell businesses what to do.
Not that this makes any difference to the other arguments here but regarding tenure:
“Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined.” From: http://www.law.uchicago.edu/media
Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position
No doubt. Just one of the many affirmative-action gifts he received, up to and including his election.
“Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined.”
Not that surprising. Tenure-track doesn’t mean tenure. It means you bust your butt for a number of years for a chance at tenure. Obama already had a pretty promising political career. It would have been an iffy choice.
“Ugly fact is that Obama could easily get tenure now that he’s been president. Some university will want the cachet of having a real, live ex-president on their staff.”
Here at “the U”, we complain about the potshots that hotshots over in the legislature take at us. Like we had some Professor of English get caught in an Internet sting operation, where he was showing nude pictures of himself to whom he thought were teen men, and now we can’t hire anyone at the U without a “criminal background check.”
The fellow pleaded out to a “slap on the wrist”, and I don’t remember whether he took an early retirement offered to him or not, but I remember his English department colleagues turned his back on him (“moral terpitude” can overrule tenure, and there may not be much “due process”).
Personally, I think the most frightening thing of this whole episode is that there were nude pictures of some old-guy English prof out on the Internet. Isn’t that the gay male equivalent of seeing your grandma naked? Eeeewwww!
As to all of the cry about having a “pedophile prof”, our male students are generally of an age that they are pretty secure in their hetero/gay sexual identity, and I think they could handle themselves around this geezer-dude (Oh, Professor, I would do anything, anything, to get an A on my essay in your “Chaucer and Medieval English” course!)
I had a “modest proposal.” There was some kind of fund-raising influence peddling scandal, where one Republican and one Democrat ended up doing hard time. My idea is to hire both these guys, the Repub and the Dem, and just make up some kind of tenured positions for them. They would be our own lobbyists against the kind of moral preening of the members of the Assembly being shocked, shocked regarding anything going on at the U.
I usually shop at the big blue box. Just a matter of proximity. I’ll drive the extra distance starting NOW.
Any CEO or COO that wants to boost sales should do this too. It may seem like “piling on” to use Obama to boost sales, but a good salesman uses every trick he can find.
And if the shoe fits, be a shoe salesman!!