In response to Douglas Sack

Do you think a paid vacation trip is an effective motivational tool? What incentives would you like to see as an employee?

I have to disagree with Douglas because I think that a paid vacation is an effective motivational tool. (Just to clarify the paid vacation or incentive trip is an all-expenses-paid excursion). I am also positive that a company would at least find out what incentives would motivate their employees before deciding to use paid vacations. I doubt very much that if someone that was being rewarded preferred something other than the paid vacation that some alternate compensation could not be agreed upon. Remember, this is a reward not punishment. By law employees have to be given vacation time and if they worked hard enough to be rewarded with a paid vacation, what more can they ask for. Personally, I would love to have one of those.

On the other hand, the criticism of A.I.G was called for and I see no reason why the executives were on a lavish paid vacation a week after government had to bail them out. Regardless of how the vacation was paid for, their actions led to the company’s failure and yet still they are been rewarded, ridiculous. Yet still people wonder why the economy is in such a mess.

Do you think that top paid executives should have company paid vacations after mismanagement led to companywide failure resulting in the government spending billions of hard earn tax payers money to bail them out? Please do not forget that those are the same millionaire executives who receive tax cuts/breaks.