[seacapn]

Get ready for a big dose of "populism" over things like this from the new congress... Barney Frank and friends have been waiting 12 years for this kind of power...

[brivette]

Nardali drove the stock down. He was a quack.

[Carolyn826]

Good! I hope this is only the beginning. There are many more, including Immelt at GE, that should also get the axe!

[gcruse]

It must be nice getting almost a quarter billion severance package. Usually people getting fired don't get bonuses. Had he turned HD around or something like it, it might not be so ridiculous.

[L98Fiero]

"It's a sign of being totally out of touch," said Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., the incoming chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. "They don't understand the extent to which they make the American public angry."

Pot to Kettle: "You're black."

[ASOC]

I would note that a plank in the Green party platform is for groups of "workers" greater than 12- the group elects their foreman (foreperson).

Gotta protect those "workers"


Shades of Lenin.

[jdm]

Nardelli Out As Boss at Home Depot

And don't let your butt stick to the toilet seat on the way out.

[ColdSteelTalon]

The boards of these companies are really at fault. The CEO knows where all the bodies are buried and the boards want it kept secret. So they pay off-the CEO's.

He's no fool for taking the money. Thats for sure.

[Brilliant]

Very few of these execs really deserve the pay they get. They get the pay because they have power within the organization, it's as simple as that.

No one can tell me, for example, that the hundreds of millions the Exxon CEO received were earned because the company made $10 billion. The company made $10 billion because the price of oil was up. It had nothing to do with the CEO.

[Moonman62]

But he didn't leave empty-handed: the Atlanta-based company said Nardelli would receive a severance package worth roughly $210 million, an amount decried by some lawmakers as a golden parachute that sends the wrong message to investors.

It sends an even worse message to employees.

[proudofthesouth]

I very much prefer Lowe's over Home Depot. I have one of each located next door to each other and always go to Lowe's unless Home Depot has a paint color that I want. HD's lamps are total cr*p. I've bought three - each on different occasions and have had to return each one cause of the poor quality. Plus Lowe's has a greater variety and more knowledgeable employees.

[Clemenza]

Home Depot is alot like its hometown Atlanta: Sprawling, bland, and overrated.

[Clemenza]

Home Depot is alot like its hometown Atlanta: Sprawling, bland, and overrated.

Ace is the place for me. ;-)

[bray]

Good, Bawney can show them how to run their busisnesses as efficiently as the gummit. What does Bawney's retirement package look like??

Pray for W and Our Troops

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

The sales of companies would be greater and cheaper for consumers if they would quit throwing money down the toilet with these CEO's.

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

I'll give you CEO's a great severence package."YOUR FIRED"!

[Hacksaw]

Nardelli oversaw several morale boosting changes at The Home Depot. These included cutting the tution benefit program, only allowing full timers to be eligable for tution benefits, and getting rid of the merit system where an employee could trade in 5 merit awards for 100.00.

[PGalt]

Bring back Arthur and Bernie. In the 6 years I've been there (part-time) much has been lost, but Home Depot is still an OUTSTANDING part-time job.

[ikka]

According to Forbes, HD is the second-largest importer of containers from China, WalMart being in first place.

Doesn't seem to have helped them all that much.

[OldFriend]

Barney Frank belongs in the slammer for lying to congress.

[pointsal]

For what????.... what ninny paid him $210-mil????