A lot has been said at the former United Way Director, Gloria Pace King.
She's been called greedy, blamed for the fact that no one is donating to UW and so on.
A federal judge, according to the Charlotte Observer, tossed out her discrimination lawsuit. All right, but let's look at human nature for a second -- the UW board offered King a lot of money. And she took it.
What would you have done? And don't get all PC on me. If you had unchecked cash and memberships to exclusive clubs that was paid for by your employer, you would've ridden that wagon until the wheels fell off.
I don't understand why people are mad at King, the board gave her those things. But when it came out, the board threw her and her Jimmy Choos underneath the bus.
But honestly, anyone in her position would've done the same thing. That's how humans are. We take what's given to us.
King filed suit in April, accusing the United Way's board of discrimination and wrongful termination, among other things, in her firing last fall. Board members said they fired her because public outcry over her $2 million supplemental pension made her leadership untenable.At the time, the board denied her the pension, but said it would pay more than $300,000 remaining on her three-year employment contract. Board leaders told her they reserved the right to revisit the terms of her dismissal, and began an internal investigation.
King said in court papers that United Way leaders had bowed to pressure from people in the community who couldn't accept the fact that a black woman would be so highly paid. In support of that claim, she cited their choice of Mac Everett, a white man and retired banker, as her interim successor.
This spring, the United Way accused King of inappropriately billing the agency for tens of thousands of dollars of her personal expenses. The board then stopped her salary payments. King accuses the agency of breaching her contract in denying her the pension and salary payments.
The board has said King is the subject of a criminal probe by the U.S. Attorney's Office and the Internal Revenue Service. King denies any wrongdoing.
The UW is the real villian. Didn't someone on that board think giving her all of that money would cause the public to question what they're donations were really going to? If not then there are a bunch of idiots running that organization. [Even if some of them aren't there now. They're running a business somewhere in Charlotte and we should all be afraid.]
So, the lawsuit maybe a little much, but I dare anyone to say they wouldn't have taken the sweetheart deal King was offered.
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