Long story short. My father helped build up a small manufacturer. Owner
brought in his newly graduated son to learn the business – but from
the top – in possibly an inspiration for "The Dilbert Principle."
Sonny was likable and bright enough, but tried to make up for how he
got where he was by making decisions too independently. He was so
determined to make his own mark that he went and did what he thought
was clever things without asking anyone who had real life experiences.
Deliveries slipped and company name slipped quicker.
As things turned increasingly sour, he became defensive and then
stubborn. Nearly buried the family biz as his pop kept him in
nearly too long.
Owner came to his senses and restored my pop to a position to restore
reliability to the firm's name. My father went to dissatisfied
customers and made concessions and managed to pull the company out of
the fire based on his reputation alone. "Oh, the grown-ups are back"
was something he heard frequently. Owner treated my father very,
very well thereafter, and the company thrived, and Pop had a
life-lesson to pass along to us kids.
Why would an entry on nepotism be timely?
I've seen it suggested on the web that one of the reasons Dan Ra
ther
won't reveal the source of the forgeries is that the source is his
activist daughter. Dan Ra
ther isn't the owner of CBS, but he
may be
using whatever leverage he has against his employers to continue to
stonewall this fiasco for CBS, and for MSM by association. The majority
of MSM has begun to see this; CBS remains stubborn. Ra
ther's
inexplicable stance could be from partisanship, could be from wounded
pride, could be from hubris, and could be for any number of emotional
and irrational causes displayed by greater men passed their prime.
But it is
more easily understandable if he's protecting his daughter, compounded
by the fact that it may have been through him that she
was in a position to pass this bit of political corruption up the
ladder..
If this is so, then Dan is just not as smart or as concerned with the
consequences of his actions to people who work for and with him as was
my father's boss. He seems quite willing to torpedo his entire
industry. Might it be to protect his baby girl? If passing off the
forgeries was a criminal act, he has even more reason to be protective,
does he not?
Apparently that conclusion is not my opinion alone. But nobody with
clout seems to pressing the issue. Someone needs to press Dan Ra
ther
on this suggestion. Or failing that, maybe press his "loving" daughter
to step up and admit her involvement if that be the case.
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