You do have to admit that crying poverty to an employee who wants health benefits and then going out and buying an expensive toy does tend to send the wrong message.
Right, but this isn't Fantasyland and this has been the way it has always been. So Fedex or UPS aren't blazing any new trails here. See some of those mansions your executives live in? Someone else in the company probably has a greater pressing need for money, but they don't care, time for another get away home. I get the ideal, it just isn't realities. But every so often there is an angel of an owner out there, just not in parcel delivery.