Oh, the pain, the pain!

Kids, sometimes it just hurts to think! Get this, which I found on BusinessWeek Online (Sept. 27th if you need to know):

But directors also need to be sensitive to perceptions. Problems can emerge when leaders appear to be reaping high rewards at a time when they're demanding sacrifices from their workers. Wharton School professor Peter Cappelli says such moves can seem "patently unfair" and argues they can undermine morale. [...] Even though some CEOs seem focused on staying ahead in the pay stakes, leadership guru Warren Bennis warns that "employees are extraordinarily wary and watchful" right now.

Ya think, Warren? How does one get to be a "leadership guru" anyway?

It stuns me that execs look to BusinessWeek Online or your average Wharton School professor for such an obvious assessment. Still further in the article:

Consider ConocoPhillips. In January, CEO James J. Mulva cut 4% of the Houston oil giant's workforce. Two months later the company announced that Mulva had earned $29 million in 2008, on top of nearly $100 million he had made in the two prior years.

And not surprisingly:

Conoco did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

I'm just gonna come on out with this: Where's the f*cking revolution? What more do people need to see that the working world, for one, is a grossly unfair one? Why can't the undermined come together rather than taping tea bags to their foreheads and pretending they're among the elite?

I wish I were a religious gal, isn't that the opiate of the masses? I need something, that much is true. And riddle me this: can you tell me where I got the title of this blog post from? The right answer gets you my undying adoration.