Years ago corporate decided delaying equipment maintenance and extending distribution right of way trimming schedules was a great way to improve major shareholders return on investment. Neglect by those decision makers controlling the corporate purse strings created the necessity of perfect power. Somehow the leaders, who made those bad decisions and the subsequent leaders, who went along with them continued to get their extravagant compensation packages and NOW employees are expected to ki-l themselves to rectify self-serving leaders' asinine bad decisions consequences. I try to see things from corporate management's perspective. I just can't shove my cranium that far up my re---m.
The reward failure and punish success paradigm is why AEP can't retain exceptional employees, but always hires sycophant leadership. Employees must not be punished and impoverished to enrich incompetent self-serving lack of leadership that creates reliability vulnerabilities enriching themselves at the expense and to the detriment of employees and customers. Maybe state regulators need to do a deep dive into how electric rates are enriching major shareholders and corporate leadership instead of improving reliability.