In the 401(k) industry, people get honored from time to time. Heck, I’ve even been named to 401k Wire’s Top 100 people in the 401(k) industry a couple of times. At no point, have I ever seen people undeserving get an honor. The third-party administrator who tried to squeeze $80,000 from one of my plans that he wasn’t entitled to, isn’t being honored by anyone.
The Managing Attorney at that Fakakta Law Firm I was at would get some award as a businessperson of the year, but at least she made money, and the firm was a well-known advertiser of the publication that honored her. So I get that.
Where I live, in Oceanside, we have a few civic organizations and it seems it’s always the same 7-10 people involved in each. Oceanside Community Service, Kiwanis, Friends of the Oceanside Library, the Oceanside Fire Department are just the organizations that are one degree of separation from these so-called community leaders, and again, it’s the same people.
So these organizations will have fundraisers and they always honor the same people and these are people who have done nothing for the community. The Oceanside school district board members have done terrible things for the community. The Oceanside school board has more members with children on school district payroll, than children in Oceanside schools. This is a problem as the prestige and reputation of Oceanside schools have plummeted under the Superintendent that they reward with a $400,000 salary and multiple extensions.
So when one of these civic groups is honoring one of these school board members for a community service award, I have to ask, was Hurricane Sandy unavailable for the award? I will attest that Hurricane Sandy has done a better job for Oceanside than this Putzy school board member.
