The Marryatt Case: more of the same.

Christchurch City Council chief executive Tony Marryatt was awarded a controversial $68,000 pay rise despite a steady decline in his performance reviews, official documents show.

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Why are we surprised at this? Everywhere, across the corporate world, in universities, in government departments, in iwi organisations, people who take up "leadership" roles expect the trappings of power - high and higher incomes, and the kudos that goes with a managerialist vision of power and decision-making. It's why Mr Gibson at the Ports expects to get his $750k, or that Telecom chap the $7 million plus. And the corollary of this is that the average employee is to be paid (relatively) less, and be told that they are unproductive, lazy, redundant and more. Capitalism in extremis is a deeply dividing creed.