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Post #255,009

by bepatient

5/10/06 9:21:19 PM

Too low on the totem poll to bitch

and smart enough to realize it.

If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition}

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Post #255,624

by ben_tilly

5/16/06 5:05:16 PM

Random thought...

If I am a business and I hire an employee, I pay that employee a salary, I probably pay that much again in benefits, and I expect that employee to generate enough business to justify that expenditure with plenty to spare.

Therefore even if salary for lost time doesn't cover the difference of having an employee on a private plane, it still can be a good business to put them there.

(But I'll agree with you that usually it is a status symbol and isn't worthwhile.)

Cheers,
Ben

I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)

Executives Take Company Planes as if Their Own - (bluke) - (31) - May 10, 2006, 03:10:08 AM EDT

Boy, is that backwards - (drewk) - (16) - May 10, 2006, 11:11:27 AM EDT

Convert their salaries to wages. - (mmoffitt) - (15) - May 10, 2006, 04:14:42 PM EDT

If you look at it that way, Blue Star Jets makes more sense. - (Another Scott) - (7) - May 10, 2006, 04:29:30 PM EDT

Yes, this is something that should be outsourced - (ben_tilly) - (6) - May 10, 2006, 06:24:04 PM EDT

I've seen this once - (bepatient) - (5) - May 10, 2006, 07:03:00 PM EDT

Wanna bet the chairman made more than 200K? :-P -NT - (ben_tilly) - (4) - May 10, 2006, 08:34:48 PM EDT

Yes he did. I did the budgets. - (bepatient) - (3) - May 10, 2006, 08:42:22 PM EDT

But it was for you. :-P - (ben_tilly) - (2) - May 10, 2006, 08:44:37 PM EDT

Too low on the totem poll to bitch - (bepatient) - (1) - May 10, 2006, 09:21:19 PM EDT

Random thought... - (ben_tilly) - May 16, 2006, 05:05:16 PM EDT

True, but ... - (drewk) - May 10, 2006, 04:43:10 PM EDT

Sorry. No. You are not correct. - (bepatient) - (5) - May 10, 2006, 06:15:18 PM EDT

If time is money, it most certainly is more efficient. - (mmoffitt) - (4) - May 16, 2006, 02:58:21 PM EDT

VLJs are not corporate jets. - (bepatient) - (3) - May 16, 2006, 03:15:40 PM EDT

Now you're completely wrong. - (mmoffitt) - (2) - May 16, 2006, 04:48:37 PM EDT

Not really - (bepatient) - (1) - May 16, 2006, 05:40:09 PM EDT

Or Hawkers, Lears, Cessna Citations, etc. - (mmoffitt) - May 17, 2006, 03:49:02 PM EDT

Two Words - (pwhysall) - (13) - May 11, 2006, 03:03:18 AM EDT

And there are some very cool solutions - (bepatient) - (10) - May 11, 2006, 09:22:19 AM EDT

Two things they lack: - (admin) - (2) - May 11, 2006, 09:44:42 AM EDT

Also, a key element, unacknowledged by many but definitely - (jake123) - May 11, 2006, 09:46:16 AM EDT

Also, could be recorded! -NT - (broomberg) - May 11, 2006, 09:57:09 AM EDT

They are missing some other things as well - (ben_tilly) - (6) - May 11, 2006, 06:03:45 PM EDT

That was exactly my point -NT - (jake123) - May 11, 2006, 10:49:27 AM EDT

So, to summarise: - (pwhysall) - (4) - May 11, 2006, 05:55:53 PM EDT

That wasn't a summary - that was missing the point. -NT - (ben_tilly) - (3) - May 11, 2006, 06:04:41 PM EDT

No, I didn't. - (pwhysall) - (1) - May 11, 2006, 06:12:00 PM EDT

Look at who I was responding to - (ben_tilly) - May 11, 2006, 06:54:02 PM EDT

ICLRPD that wasn't a summary - that was missing the point. (new thread) - (boxley) - May 11, 2006, 06:30:46 PM EDT

Very hard to video conference golf -NT - (JayMehaffey) - (1) - May 12, 2006, 10:15:01 AM EDT

Golden Tee. -NT - (jake123) - May 12, 2006, 10:25:54 AM EDT

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