Is there a semester on removing common sense part of MBA courses . Idiotic behaviour by this guy short of United going bankrupt if he couldnt get to Denver that day nothign could be so important as to outweigh the sheer stupidity of what he did-should someone like that eb trusted to be CEO of an airline. Similar degrees of poor judgement by many of his airline staff could have literally fatal results.
In the UK we have the CEo of a major water company (heard of them ?) sending her peers an email detailing how they shoud plan to stop a labour government renationalising water. Ending with 'please make sure you keep this confidential.'. Apart fromt the fact that she should lose her job immediately and face criminal prosecution for conspiracy to defraud, how could she be so stupid as to think that in the current climate nothign in that industry is going to stay confidential for 5 minutes.
One law for the ....