Today I read that the chief of transportation for the city got fired. (One paper said he resigned, another said he was "dropped" - I guess when you are high enough up, you can't get fired, you just get asked to step down.) But the kicker is, he's still going to get $200,000 a year for the next three years to finish out his contract, a pension of $100,000 a year, and free health care for life. Wowee kazowie. That just blows my mind. It's so much more money that most people will ever earn.
The average salary in the U.S. is about $40,000 for men and $30,000 for women (according to this website), and 46 million people don't have health insurance at all. It seems unfair to me that someone who got fired would get all that. But life is unfair. It's not true, for example, that if you work harder, you'll earn more money - all the hardest jobs are menial labor that pay barely a living wage, and usually don't even come with health benefits. And look at the $10,000 discrepancy between men and women "with similar work experience."
Maybe the guy really went through hell the past few years, so he deserves this severance package, and maybe he's so invested in his work that being fired still hurts. I always feel a little sorry for people who get fired. But still. I can't help but wonder how all the bus drivers and train mechanics who work under him for petty wages are going to feel when they hear how much money he's getting for doing nothing the rest of his life.
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