1) That is impressive, hats off.
2) What is FP&A and IR? There are many acronyms in the world.
3) Thank you for the honesty in admitting there is such a thing as a useless executive.
4) You are right, treating people well is worth a LOT of money; particularly treating them with respect, rather than a "resources" (interchangeable cogs who must exert their own efforts on their own time, to fill the business needs, without compensation, while being threatened with arbitrary termination and being spit on in the meantime.)
FP&A is financial planning and analysis. IR is Investor Relations. I’ve worked at the very bottom as a college drop out and got up to about $80k/year without even having a college degree in retail. Because of that, and now as a mid level exec, I have a unique perspective. I stopped a lot of stupid things from happening over the years, and I’m glad wages have been moving higher the last 5-6 years above inflation - well above inflation. But you just can’t compete with $40k/year to not work. It’s like taking illegal immigration and h1B and multiplying by 25x the other direction. I am all for legit areas to increase wages for US workers. This is going to create so many issues including poor service everywhere, bankruptcies and loss of jobs, plus massive inflation, which means your pay increase isn’t really an increase.