Thursday, August 08, 2013

Greed

Today I managed to get my hands on a copy of "Blick am Abend". It's one of the two free papers here in Zürich, and the morning paper is elusive. Probably because I don't get to any tram or bus stop before the morning is over.

Anyway, today I read about the CEO of REGA (the rescue service organization, funded solely by private people) having a salary and bonus compiling a whopping total of half a million francs! What?

I understand that about two million people pay around 30 francs each yearly to support this rescue service, which means around 15,000 people have to pay a yearly fee just to support the CEO. I am so changing my will!
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Anonymous said...

I'm sure with the usual justification of 'you have to pay good money to get good people' bla bla bla. ugh. Isnt this what the abzockerei initiative is supposed to put a stop to?

8:33 am
Witchbitch said...

I think the REGA guy missed that initiative.

9:07 am
Anonymous said...

Don't get me wrong, but when you were still working, good job, qualified, but still far from being a CEO - what did you earn? I don't think that this is a greedy salary. (Not even ONE million) If you read the yearly report of REGA you can figure out how much they earn from "Gönnerbeiträge" and how much from rescue of people. The Abzockerinitiative goes after the big salaries... But it's not a bad salary I admit. :-) A

11:43 am
Witchbitch said...

I still think that half a million is too big a salary for anybody.

1:11 pm

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