Aber richtig sein (but is it right?). This sounds familiar somehow. Like, where’s the money? That’s what a German ex-Hypo Real Estate boss is wondering. No, not the millions and billions (I mix those up these days for some reason) that the soon-to-be-bankrupt bank burned up over years of mismanagement (he was a boss dude, remember?), it’s all about his million or two or three euro salary and benefits that he believes he still has coming to him, legally. And perhaps he does, legally. After all, he was fired from a well-paid job you know and it’s hard to find steady work as a banker these days.

Ah, the days of wine and roses, or of corporate or even personal responsibility, if you prefer. There was a time when people had a sense of accountability for their actions, or at least a sense of decency, or at least I believe there used to be a time like that. I’m starting to wonder, though. Doesn’t the saying go that the more things change the more they stay the same? If so, then where has all that sense of accountability gone? It’s blowing in the wind or something. Or everybody has gone out of their senses.

„Der mittlerweile entlassene Institutsleiter Georg Funke will gerichtlich prüfen lassen, ob sein Vertrag weiter gilt.“