You may have heard this whimsical story about former President George W. Bush being offered a job as a greeter at a hardware store but turning it down:
George W Bush has paid a jokey visit to a hardware store in Dallas, Texas, which offered him a job as a greeter.
The former US president entered the Elliott's outlet with his security detail saying “I'm looking for a job”, store manager Andrea Bond said.
The owner of the Texas chain made the offer earlier this month in a letter published in a Dallas newspaper.
But despite not yet having a publisher for his memoirs, Mr Bush decided on reflection to turn the job down.
Equipped with a name tag reading “W”, Mr Bush spent an hour there with his secret service security detail, chatting to customers and doing a little shopping. Via BBC
Naturally the rest of America isn’t laughing. It was, after all, Bush’s lack of leadership that allowed the mess we are in now.
Ironically the rest of the Bush Administration is largely finding that out for themselves now:
The jobless rate is hanging high — for many of the roughly 3,000 political appointees who served President George W. Bush. Finding work has proved a far tougher task than those appointees expected.
“This is not a great time for anyone to be job hunting, including numerous former political appointees,” said Carlos M. Gutierrez, Mr. Bush's commerce secretary. Previously chief executive of cereal maker Kellogg Co., he hopes to run a company again because “I have a lot of energy.”
Only 25% to 30% of ex-Bush officials seeking full-time jobs have succeeded, estimated Eric Vautour, a Washington recruiter at Russell Reynolds Associates Inc. That “is much, much worse” than when Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton left the White House, he said. At least half those presidents' senior staffers landed employment within a month after the administration ended, Mr. Vautour recalled. Via Wall Street Journal
