On 2007-12-02 21:09:54 +0000, Roland Perry said:

In message 47531dc4@qaanaaq, at 21:04:03 on Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Andy
Hall remarked:
I'm trying to get this conversation into the real world. Only football
managers seem to suffer the "fired many times a week" scenario. It
doesn't happen to most people in the 'real world'.
Don't you believe it....
Perhaps you can quote an example.

Just take a look at major companies on a worldwide basis. CEOs are
on the line the whole time. Ask Ed Zander.

You are out by several orders of magnitude. Some CEOs lose their job,
and a very small number of their direct successors lose their job a
year later.

There's no history of all (or even a noticeable number of) CEOs losing
their jobs several times a week.

I didn't say that there was. However, there is no question of
security of tenure in the event of a gargantuan failure to produce the
goods. This situation is exactly equivalent to that. These people
have been paid out of public money to do a proper job. It is reasonable
to expect a higher standard from public sector employees than from the
private sector. They have singularly failed and this should result in
loss of employment.