'I'm Hiring Kwame Kilpatrick, Our Organization Is, Because It's a Good Business Decision'

With management like this, no wonder so many companies are in the tank.

In this terrible economy, it's good to know one man was able to find work.

Of course, the fact that Kwame Kilpatrick got the job a week after he left jail, in a field in which he has no experience, at a six-figure wage, doesn't make people happy.

And the fact that his new employer, Compuware, laid off 250 people the same week it hired him, doesn't make people happy.

And the fact that Kilpatrick, Detroit's former mayor, has been proven a liar, cost his city millions of dollars, was convicted of felony perjury, and has a sense of entitlement that would shame Cleopatra, doesn't make people happy.

And let's be clear -- it shouldn't. This guy does not deserve "a break." This guy does not deserve the front of the line. This guy is lucky he did only 99 days behind bars, he owes this city $1 million, and at the very least, he should endure the same cold splash that tens of thousands of his former constituents are enduring these days -- unemployed and doing without.

A case for charisma?

What exactly is Kilpatrick doing without? He will live in a posh city near Dallas and was re-employed a blazing 7 days out of jail. He was flown to his new home in a private jet, paid for by his mother, who last I looked was also a public servant. Does anybody in that family live in the real world?

Because in the real world, others don't take the fall for you. In the real world, you're not entitled to something because of your last name. In the real world, you can't just say "I did my time" and be right back in business. Plenty of people do their time. Go ask them how easy it is to get a job once they've got a conviction on their record.

Compuware Chief Executive Officer Peter Karmanos defended the hiring on a WJR-AM (760) show this past week, saying, "Look, we hired a very, very talented person with lots of charisma that has made some serious mistakes in judgment."

Maybe Kwame's job will be chief dress code enforcer.

Naturally, Karmanos has been a contributor to Kwame's mommy (among many others), so maybe we can just consider this another contribution to the family.

Via LGF links.