But… talk about LIVING! Dr. David Feinberg himself is soaring, baby. And it takes a lot money to keep his mojo working. You don’t keep the money coming, fuck you.
… [A]t a time of … difficult financial decisions, the [UCLA] regents … [have] antagonized some critics by boosting the annual compensation of UCLA’s top hospital executive by $410,000, to about $1.3 million.
… Feinberg, UCLA’s hospital system chief executive officer, will receive a $210,000 bonus. But in a more divisive matter, UCLA officials also received the regents’ approval to give Feinberg an extra raise of about $410,000, boosting his total compensation to more than $1.3 million.
UCLA Chancellor Gene Block said Feinberg was doing an excellent job and was being wooed by other employers. “Keeping this team together is essential,” he said.
It’s not like Feinberg’s a doctor or anything, who feels a moral commitment to what he’s doing here. If we don’t keep not only giving this guy raises, but giving him extra raises, he’ll… he’ll leave us!
And then what’ll we do? We … we couldn’t go on without Feinberg! The team has to be kept together. And what a great team member Feinberg is, with his willingness to sacrifice for the good of the university…
Yes, it’s essential that this great team player be kept on. Essential. I’m the chancellor, and I’ve just said that to the newspapers.
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So Feinberg knows what he has to do next pay cycle. $500,000 more in bonuses, plus I’ll take an extra raise of … of… $500,000!
Okay! Anything you say.
September 17th, 2010 at 1:33PM
yes, it was disgusting
but equally disgusting to me yesterday was a move by a newly hired associate vice chancellor university communications
she belittled constructive comments offered by a UCSB professor chris newfield (about staff downsizing at Cal and other campuses under an Operational Excellence initiative).
this AVC wanted only local people to talk about the matter
and she also savaged the journalist’s reporting skills.
i wrote about it here during the uc regents meeting
http://cloudminder.blogspot.com/2010/09/pr-staff-at-cal-should-be-more.html
September 17th, 2010 at 1:39PM
Thanks for that, cloudminder.