Gray Matters by Stuart Carlson and Jerry Resler for June 26, 2021

How many of us aren’t expendable?

I heard that Alex Trebek once spoke of the same fear and never took a day off!

American business. Predatory at every level.

Now they’ll find out.

I am given to understand that it is SOP in institutions, like banks, where there is always a danger of embezzlement, to require employees to take vacations. Occasionally it will surface, that, during the employee’s absence, some things (like previously-unreported revenues, or kickback payments to the replacement) that will reveal hanky-panky on the part of the vacationer that he or she has been able to cover up.

and they could.