On the same day, the firm announced it was cutting 270 jobs at a facility in Leeds, with the possibility that some of the workers could be relocated to Cardiff.
But also such leaders must navigate between the lesser of two bad options, e.g. closing a facility, laying off employees or cutting wages and salaries.
O'Leary joined the board of an Energy Department contractor to whom she appears to have thrown a sweetheart deal -- keeping steady its remuneration for providing security at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility in Colorado -- but cutting the security workforce the firm was responsible for paying to do that job.