I get kind of tired of hearing company executives talk about the fact that what they are doing is legal even though their actions really aren’t right.
Take, for example, the AIG firestorm over bonuses. How about, not just a corporate communications makeover, but a crash course in ethics?
Perhaps those bonus getters were entitled by contract to those dollars but what about the larger issue–that hard working tax payers have ponied up to bail out this company that like a drunken gambler went too far and now thinks it should be rewarded for bad behavior.
So while it may be legal, it isn’t right. AIG was a good student at the GM school of PR – arrogance, a feeling that they are better than everyone else and deserve the best even when their performance and behavior exemplifies the worst. The court of public opinion is powerful, indeed.
