Posted on 09/27/2011 8:30:51 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
BOCA RATON — BOCA RATON – Office Depot's International Division president was terminated Monday because of an "improper relationship with another associate," according to a statement released by CEO Neil Austrian.
Charlie Brown, 58, who had been International president since 2005 and a top executive since joining the company in 1998, made $3.5 million last year in salary, bonuses, incentives and other compensation, according to the company's annual report. Formerly he was CFO of Denny's Inc. and he was with ARAMARK International amd Pizza Hut International.
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What is an ‘improper relationship’?........could be anything...........
It means he had relations with a woman at the company. It is the only PC reason for termination. You know it wasn’t a homosexual issue or they wouldn’t have the guts for the termination.
Upper management shouldn’t fish in the company pond...
This is fairly unusual. I thought personnel matters were ‘confidential,’ so hope the CEO didn’t open himself and the company up for litigation. Can’t imagine this wasn’t run by a team of lawyers. Nothing to indicate if the inappropriate relationship was hetero or homo.
Charlie’s comments afterwards were, “Why is everybody always picking on me?”
Another poster was right: they would have handled this privately had the improper relationship been with a same-sex lover.
Companies are very sensitive about relationships between management and employees because if things go badly they can be hit with expensive lawsuits as well as EEOC hassles. All the drama is very bad for morale, too. These things aren’t even that good an idea between managers at the same level of responsibility, and when a manager is having an affair with someone further down the food chain, it can really be a mess.
Cause, he’s a clown, that Charlie Brown.
He’s gonna get caught just you wait and see...
I smell smoke in the auditorium!
I always thought Peppermint Patty played for the other team (and I’m not talking about baseball).
These things aren’t even that good an idea between managers at the same level of responsibility”
classic understatement...
Was he married and having an affair?...............
I heard he also called the English teacher “Daddy-O.”
Did you read the one comment from the newspaper’s site? “THERE IS NO REASON WHY ANYONE SHOULD MAKE THIS MUCH MONEY AND NOT PAY AT LEAST 50% OF IT IN TAXES.”
That is an expensive diddle.
Did Chuck finally get his “Little Red-Haired Girl”?
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