severance pay

i’d be very very happy

http://www.businessweek.com/idg/2010-08-07/poor-mark-hurd-hp-severance-includes-12-2-million-cash-16-million-in-stock.html

No wonder their printer ink cartridges are so freakin’ expensive! :mad:

I heard that news yesterday. Man, I’d volunteer to get fired for that. Then there are us poor working slobs who do more work under someone’s thumb and we couldn’t pay 1/10th of his taxes with a lifetime of our wages.

something’s wrong here. this guy stole money from his company, tried to cover it up and is rewarded? BS!!!

i suppose there’ll be a class in middle school named “how to steal from your company and NOT BE CAUGHT”

Wes, they start younger than that by NOT teaching words like INTEGRITY and HONESTY!!!

I wish someone would pay me 12.2 mil NOT to show up to work! You’d find my fat butt in a brand new SUV headed to Wyoming/Montana/Idaho so fast it would make your head spin!!!

you all have to remember its not all his fault he gets what hes getting. the board of directors are the ones who signed his employment contract. they should be held accountable also.

Gentlemen,
These opportunities were/are available to YOU too. It’s YOUR fault you chose not to pursue them. I NEVER begrudge someone’s good fortune . This is AMERICA where any dream CAN be realized . My life’s lesson is , don’t ever envy “them” and above all, don’t EVER let em see ya sweat.

Mark

It’s the way things are. The fact that there is so much money out there to be had in the private sector, is what employs all the rest of us. I don’t care if the owner of my company bathes in gold plated soap, then gets a massage and is fed grapes as he is dried off with turkish fabric costing 10K a towel. As long as he keeps the company growing and I continue to get a paycheck…I send my thanks:^) I’m not an envious person. Besides if I were envious of them, I’m sure the guy who cleans the office every night is envious of my desk with pics of my kids on vacation and fishing trips scattered around. It is what it is.