Andy Hornby
is famous for a couple of things, one – thank you an obviously aggressively
policed Wikipedia entry – is graduating first out of 800 students when he got
his Harvard Business School MBA. Woooooooo, nice.
The other is being the CEO
who fucked HBoS so hard the taxpayer had to eventually step in with billions of
bailout pounds. So that was Andy Hornby one, the British public nil. But wait,
there’s more. …
A recent
Guardian expose lifts the lid on Boots the chemist and how it’s hard driving staff in ways that put the health of people getting prescriptions at risk and
also milks the taxpayer by effectively setting sales targets for medicine use
reviews (or MURs), which the taxpayer pays for.
The article dates
the start of this back to Boots being acquired by a private equity house. And
who did the private equity bod in charge appoint as CEO? Yup, Andy Hornby, so
two nil Andy, but it’s OK, cos he left in 2011 and is now CEO of Coral, the
bookies.
But, lets
pause for a second and reflect on the great service Andy Hornby has given us,
the British public, given taxpayer money has been so integral to the Andy Hornby 'business model' ... (when doing so forget about
all the big company directorships and chairmanships this moral titan will soon be
vying for).
There, have
you had a pause and some thoughts? So whaddya think about this scion of industry and his
apparent immunity to the very real, very material consequences of his
decision-making and leadership have had and say about today’s ruling class, how
they get to be there and what they’re willing to do to employees, the public
and taxpayers to make a quick buck.
Anyhoo, that
he’s currently the Coral CEO , a big wheel in an industry that fuels as it
profits from the flames of however many
tens of thousands of gambling addicts is by the by I guess, because Andy Hornby
is a true leader and an utter ____ (you fill in the blanks).
And the way
things work in today’s Britain, that’s just dandy it appears.
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