Thursday, January 9, 2014

$73,102 a year for taking a shower!

No the PLCB isn't coming clean that would take far more space to write then what is allowed here.



Imagine if the government paid you $73K a year to do something you know how to do.  Pretty good deal right?  Actually you would be underpaid by PLCB standards.  The 2 board members make that every year (the Chairman makes even more) for meeting 21 times in total (2013) with no, I mean NONE at all*, experience in the liquor or retail industry or any business the size of the PLCB and they meet for less time then you spend in the shower every year. Pretty sweet gig and a prime example of why the PLCB needs to be privatized. (* Board Member Bob Marcus did sell cars but that really isn’t the same thing)
Imagine if the mayor of Pittsburgh decided to come in only 21 days a year for a couple of hours. A fair analogy since the Board and the Mayor both have almost exactly the same amount of full time employees working for them. How much and how well would things get done?  One only has to look at the ineptness of the PLCB to answer that question. The difference being that the mayor pretty much only affects Pittsburgh while the PLCB affects all 12 million citizens.
Let business people make business decisions, they at least have experience and aren’t political hacks who need a job.  Also, you can count on them to be on the job most if not all days too working tirelessly to expand the business.  See my post about “40 years of nothing” to see how effective the board is on that business principle.

Privatization IS Modernization.  Accept nothing less.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Imagine if the mayor of Pittsburgh decided to come in only 21 days a year for a couple of hours."

I know what you're getting at, but if all politicians and bureaucrats rarely did anything, our lives would be so much better.

Albert Brooks said...

Just imagine how it could be if the pols actually knew something about what they legislated!

Anonymous said...

unrelated but thought you might be interested in this http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2014/01/why-houston-changing-its-alcohol-sales-law-help-food-deserts/8065/

Albert Brooks said...

Interesting. With luck we can get some package reform done too and not have to spend the next decade or two (or eight!) trying to fix the idiocy that the PLCB is sure to require.

Anonymous said...

There are 21 board meeting a year. Are you going to have us believe that is their only responsibility?

Lew Bryson said...

You tell us. They obviously have some off-the-books meetings they don't make public records of, considering how fast the work gets done at the public meetings; they have to respond to press questions about PLCB screwups and corruption; they appear on talk shows to explain why the PLCB doesn't totally suck... So, okay, maybe the equivalent of 30 full work days a year. Big deal. I'd take it, for the salary, and I'd do a better job than they do, I guarantee. In fact, I'd put up a bond to guarantee my better performance, or make some other public wager. It would be an easy win.

Lew Bryson said...

You tell us. They obviously have some off-the-books meetings they don't make public records of, considering how fast the work gets done at the public meetings; they have to respond to press questions about PLCB screwups and corruption; they appear on talk shows to explain why the PLCB doesn't totally suck... So, okay, maybe the equivalent of 30 full work days a year. Big deal. I'd take it, for the salary, and I'd do a better job than they do, I guarantee. In fact, I'd put up a bond to guarantee my better performance, or make some other public wager. It would be an easy win.