Commiserations to you job-seekers out there who fancied themselves as Chief Executive Officer of the international corporation RCC Inc. The position has been filled. There were 135 internal candidates vying to fulfil it with an external individual, Trump, suggesting that he should get the job because he was already running America and as the job involved a one-day week, Sundays, it would be a doddle to do. Note, it was not made clear in the job spec whether megalomania was an essential prerequisite.
What can the new CEO look forward to? According to RSVPLive the job pays a salary of £228,000 a year. Throw in the benefits that go with the position and you’re looking at a cushty little number. The Mirror reported that the last holder ‘had a jaw-dropping net worth of £12million due to the assets associated with his papal office. These include five cars, an apartment and clothing’. The job also includes a ‘top-floor palatial penthouse apartment – which boasts more than 12 rooms, quarters for staff, a terrace and extensive views across Rome’. Throw in lots of free international travel and lots of sitting on a throne whilst ‘authoritative’ visitors including politicians, celebrities, royalty and billionaires come to you from all over the world to bow and scrape and make you feel very important. On reflection, having to be pleasant to these sorts of people may qualify as one of the negatives.
There is unlikely to be any interference from the Chairman of the company, a very reclusive person, a bit like Howard Hughes, whom no one has heard from in aeons. Although do be aware that if sufficiently peed off he might rain down plagues, pestilence, floods and other unpleasantness. The job requires celibacy which given the Chairman’s pettishness means at least you won’t have to worry too much about the life survival likelihood of your first born.
Note that the temper tantrums are taken from that book of fiction which has served as a playbook which, the present post’s predecessors have used to impose, or try to impose, a monopoly of religion and power over the world’s population for two millennium. This includes the use of stick and carrot techniques with the promise both of ‘pie in the sky’ and ‘eternal torment’: see James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man which includes a harrowing passage detailing a sermon by a catholic priest on the torture awaiting disbelievers in hell.
The new CEO is American-born Robert Prevost who has decided to adopt the alias of Leo the fourteenth. In 1878 the ‘thirteenth’ issued an encyclical against the ‘sect of men who, under various and almost barbarous names, are called socialists, communists, or nihilists’. In 1891, another encyclical appeared sympathetic to the plight of the working class but actually defended the rights of the property-owning class to the hilt. God given rights, doncha know.
Some new boss, same old boss.
DC
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