Over 10% unemployment in California, and you’re sending me spam to try and recruit me for a $45,000 per year job as a Travel Coordinator?

Even better, I scroll down and the message is from a travel agency in Russellville, Arizona? And you’re spamming people in California?

Aaron Klein,

You want to work for a trusted leader in the travel marketplace. You want to work on interesting and challenging projects. You want to make a difference. You want an employer who not only values your opinions, ideas and participation in company decisions and actions, but expects them from you. TRAVEL COORDINATOR – is job position for You in travel industry.

JOB FUNCTIONS:
Responsibilities include the coordination of all travel arrangements for employees and management engaged in business travel. This would include airfare, lodging and car rental. Ensure that travel needs are met within the constraints of the company travel budget and policy. Review and process employee travel and expense reports. Must be able to work in a fast pace work environment and handle last minute deadlines. Must be able to interface with all levels of employees and management.

JOB RECUIREMENTS:
Adult age. Must have the ability to work alone or as part of a team. Organization, accountability and attention to detail needed. Must have computer skills. Must be a U.S. citizen. Must be able to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

JOB BENEFITS:
- Guaranted salary 3,500.00 USD/month + comission bonus (guarantee 45,000.00 per year)
- Life, Vision, Dental and Health Insurance
- Flexible Work Schedule
- Paid Holidays
- 401K / Retirement Plan
- Sick Leave
- Vacation

If You feel that You one of us and ready for position TRAVEL COORDINATOR contact me with Your resume or CV on:

hiring.lengyel@live.com

Waiting Your response!
Sincerely,
David Lengyel.

Here’s a idea for you.

Interesting picture in the New York Times this morning, as the titular CEO of General Motors watches the real CEO of General Motors announce his company’s bankruptcy.

I’ve written before that I’m proud to own a Ford, and I’d seriously consider another one for my next vehicle purchase, just on the basis of the fact that they get it. “This is America,” said Ford CEO Alan Mulally, “and this is about making products people want and being self-sufficient.”

The New York Times has a great piece about Ford, the turnaround underway there, and what Ford has done and is doing to become the great — and self-sufficient — American car company that we all want to see.

Looking at what Mr. Mulally has done so far, it would be hard to argue. He came into a company that was legendary for its fiefs, and tore them down. He held regular Thursday morning meetings with top management, where the only real sin was hiding the truth -another thing Ford had been long known for.

He insisted that the Taurus, once one of the company’s most iconic brands but one it had abandoned, be revived. Then when he was shown the first clay model of a new Taurus, he and the other top executives gave it the thumbs down; it wasn’t good enough, they concluded. And although the company was preparing to borrow billions of dollars before he was hired, Mr. Mulally insisted that Ford try to get its hands on every last penny it could. As a result, Ford hocked virtually every asset it had for a $23.6 billion loan – money that has allowed it to survive the recession and continue spending billions on product development. Which is another thing about Mr. Mulally: he’s not afraid to bet the farm.

Mr. Booth told me Ford probably needed an outsider like Mr. Mulally to move the company forward. The auto companies are historically insular, which is a big part of the reason they’ve stumbled so badly. Bill Ford, the previous C.E.O. (he’s still chairman, of course) had spent his life in the family business; he knew some of these things needed to be done, but he could never bring himself to pull the trigger.

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Geoff Colvin is a smart guy who is one of the must-reads in Fortune Magazine. He wrote this piece on whether this morning’s news — that the federal government is effectively taking an operational role in a car company — will work.

Because the government plays such a major role in Chrysler, AIG and Citigroup, the CEOs and directors of those companies are effectively serving at the pleasure of the President. He didn’t appoint them, but he could dispatch them just as swiftly as he did Wagoner. Instead of using the Fannie and Freddie model for GM, the administration should have operated through the board, sending the critically important message that shareholders and governance matter. And then – the hard part – the government should let the bankruptcy process, in which all players get a hearing, operate if necessary.

I asked Ira Millstein, the attorney for whom Yale’s corporate governance center is named, what GM’s directors are supposed to do at their board meetings – just call the Treasury Department for instructions? “That’s what they do in China” was his response. “They make no bones about the fact that the commissars on the boards of these putatively private businesses really call the shots.” This didn’t seem like the most encouraging example. Do the directors have any role at all? “They’re not completely useless,” Millstein said. “They keep an eye on the business.”

So the namesake of Yale’s corporate governance center is saying this is the same model as the one employed by communist China? That’s a frank and illuminating statement.

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