Gotta agree: as the number goes up it has to be less plausible. I wonder if I heard wrong. Maybe 25 and under? The team I was on was under 25 and that was the case for us.
I think 25 and under much more plausible mathematically. Maybe the quote was that a square root of the employees earn half the total wage bill?
Yeah, my 1st manager was "ignorance is bliss" and focused on issues other than that of staff productivity. My next manager was derelict. He knew of a serious problem with one of his staff and how that person mistreated others and did nothing. Long story how that worker got away with it. But in the meantime, I quiz the missus: is someone else's failure at work impacting you personally? Have you been criticized for not being productive enough even though you are productive but as a team you are not? If the answer is yes, defend yourself to the extent that you are not criticizing other workers. If you have to do so, only then criticize other workers. Otherwise? You run risks, especially if you are in a union. What will complaining do to your reputation? Will the other worker have legal actions against you especially where a union contract exists? Will the manager take this as you telling them they aren't doing their job (which you are even if just trying to be helpful) or that you are putting work on YOUR manager's plate (telling them to do something about the under-performing staff!) I know a number of people, including the missus, that dearly miss being top individual contributor and want to leave management. The wife took a substantial pay cut and actually did so and is happy to have done so.
I think you have a right to report incompetence or dangerous conduct. However, the first response is better not disciplinary, because once a disciplinary route is taken there's not going back and it's going to leave permanent scars on the team. Better is to suggest the co-worker could to with support to help them improve; of course also offering that assistance without involving management.
I fear that I do not much enjoy management. I don't really like authority at all, either over me or exercising it myself.
I'm pretty sure anyone not of such importance could not be seen drinking heavily at a party, drive off with a young lady, have a car crash, leave the vehicle (for which Kennedy did receive a 2 month suspended sentence) return to find the young lady dead in the car and not find themselves going to prison for some time as the circumstantial case is pretty solid.
Perks of being rich.
I've heard of other whoppers told by other politicians (and reporters) that didn't end their careers. Santos and Biden do seem to be in a league of their own. Other issues will take down Biden (the document scandal is, I think, about his own backers wanting him to stop leaving a door open for a 2024 run) but not his whoppers. We can hope Santos is a different matter. The guy is a loon.
It's quite a manufactured scandal for Biden, though, isn't it.
It is clear that high-ranking politicians have a habit of taking important documents home to work on them there, and occasionally mislaying them (that's of course a bad thing). The achives then check for anything missing when they leave office and send them a notice to return them. As long as the archives apparently get almost everything sufficiently important back, case closed. Maybe they are prepared to write off a handful as lost.
But we have issues of scale and attitude here. Biden
and Pence have had documents found, but they also co-operated fully and only had maybe up to a dozen. This is the realm of accidental error. Trump however had hundreds, if not thousands, and his response to returning them was very clearly somewhere between lacking diligence and deliberate obstruction such that a huge number remained. We might note that someone in his team shopped him to the FBI, and I think his lawyers were really cagey about one of the sign-offs that he'd complied with the archives, implying they knew something might be wrong. If he'd only just complied properly like everyone else, there wouldn't be a whiff of a story here. But that's Trump: he cannot help but self-sabotage with his narcissistic compulsions.
Then what happens is that to protect their own, people run round with "No you" accusations, even when they are barely a fraction as serious. And so we have a vast amount of rooting around of other politicians. I don't mind this, per se. I do however object to equating Trump with Biden and Pence, because it's like equating someone who embezzled $10,000 from his company to two guys who accidentally went home with a few pens from the company stationery cupboard.