Torn on this one - much of the criticism seems to be based on a belief that the man wasn't entitled to go on a holiday which was surely planned weeks or months beforehand:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35285020
There may be other things behind this, but I really am getting tired of the notion that any boss must jump on a plane if they are elsewhere when there is an issue.
Let's not forget that we aren't talking about a top politician or a royal, whose face recognition might have given a well needed morale boost in the flooding. I doubt that anyone affected would have had a clue who he was had he wandered down their flooded street.
It isn't as if it is impossible to work remotely these days - I suspect he'd be better able to keep in touch with situations from a Caribbean hotel room than onboard a plane for 9 hours heading back to the UK.
It just seems a bit silly now if no-one can take a holiday without potentially having to fly back at a moment's notice.
But once the media have turned against you, you are doomed. I wonder whether there were times when the sh*t was hitting the fan at News International when Murdoch was on holiday and whether he thought he had to jump on a plane, and if not whether he felt he should have resigned his position. Somehow I suspect not.
Problem is that if we put unreasonable expectations on people in high pressure jobs then you'll find the talent pool of people wishing to take those role diminishing by the day.
