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To: glorgau

I rock back and forth in my chair in gleeful contempt of all these so-called "counter culture" companies that have taken a fast track to making their top managers billionaires while stiffing the workers and stock holders!


2 posted on 08/12/2006 7:47:17 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: pabianice
"I rock back and forth in my chair in gleeful contempt of all these so-called "counter culture" companies that have taken a fast track to making their top managers billionaires while stiffing the workers and stock holders!"

Same here.
So much for "counter culture" and "anti-establishment".
It stops right at the door of personal greed and depravity.
3 posted on 08/12/2006 7:50:15 PM PDT by Jameison
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To: pabianice

"I rock back and forth in my chair in gleeful contempt of all these so-called "counter culture" companies that have taken a fast track to making their top managers billionaires while stiffing the workers and stock holders!"

I dunno I got the disbursement of my Worldcom 401K that resulted from one of the court settlements. Not sure what I will do with the 1 cent check I received. Probably try not to spend it all in one place.


4 posted on 08/12/2006 7:51:59 PM PDT by driftdiver
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To: pabianice

This has gone on so much, especially in tech companies for many years now.

Why so many refuse to do stock buybacks or pay a dividend to stockholders. They need a big percentage of their profits to cover all the stock options they dish out to the upper management and executives.

Cisco is a perfect example of this. Their stock has been dead money going nowhere for years now, but they still refuse to pay a dividend or perform stock buybacks. They continue to have one of the most bloated stock option programs for management in the US corporate industry.


6 posted on 08/12/2006 7:55:30 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: pabianice
Another Enron debacle?
19 posted on 08/12/2006 10:29:04 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: pabianice
My company is going through an options back-dating investigation now... we've had to delay a quarterly filing because of it... my stock options have lost half their value in the last 12 months... bites.

For the record, I'm not an exec; we're not run by a bunch of bleeding heart, liberal hippies either.

Just like Snickers candy bar... it is only good if you eat it... options are only good if they're excercised.

34 posted on 08/14/2006 7:31:10 PM PDT by Trajan88 (www.bullittclub.com)
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To: pabianice

Isn't that the TRUTH!

If you do not have a title of director or above (VP) then you do not have a contract and you get SCREWED!

Time to change the RULES!


47 posted on 08/15/2006 11:39:31 PM PDT by Prost1 ((We can build a wall, we can evict - "Si, se puede!"))
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