O'Hare Management Cleaning Up

O’Hare execs decided to roll up their sleeves and scrub toilets this week. Well, it was decided for them. Aviation Commissioner John Roberson has asked everyone with an assistant commissioner title or above to work one eight-hour shift this week cleaning the bathrooms at the airport. “Many of the approximately 20 executives on the hook, including Roberson, make more than $100,000 a year,” so God bless middle management!

Roberson, who jumped into a sewer when he was a sewers commissioner (five bucks for whoever knows the clinical term for a feces fetish), wanted the bigwigs to feel for the little guys after Mayor Daley announced plans to privatize the janitorial staff.

People gripe about the O’Hare bathrooms a lot, and making rich people clean poop is funny, but we’re still not totally sure what the point of all this is.