“I’m having a little difficulty with your reasoning though. She accepted the bonus, right? I guess my morals are different that yours. Accepting something you know you should not have is a wrong as taking it yourself.”
One thing you don’t seem to consider is that the bonus was, not only in her contract, but approved by the BOD. There is absolutely nothing immoral about that.
To impugn my morals in the way you did is very insulting, to say the least. Unlike so many on the left...that would be you...I happen to believe that contracts should be honored.
I guess you believe that the shareholders in the auto companies should have lost their positions, too? If you say “yes”, I will know you are one who doesn’t believe one should honor contracts.
“STATEMENT FROM WHITMAN: “I was offered $120 million by the board of directors at a time I knew the company was in financial trouble and was planning to lay off many employees. I could not in good conscience accept the bonus and so advised the board of directors.”
Unless you can provide a link to that statement, you should be kicked off of this forum...and don’t even give me the sarcasm excuse that you gave someone else.
It doesn’t wash...
If it is not obvious to you that that statement was to make a point and not a statement from Whitman, then it is not me that is having trouble here.
As for my statement of what my morals would be in that situation, that is in no way a statement of your morals. I was not in any way suggesting you don't have similar morals. That is a statement I would never attempt to make for you.
As you say, the bonus was likely in her contract. I consider it excessive, obscene given the fact that employees were to be layed off. It makes no difference that the layoffs came afterwards. No CEO would NOT have been aware they were coming.
And before you accuse me of being a Brown fan, I am not. This is a discussion forum for conservatives. Whitman is not conservative. If you want me thrown off of here, be sure you add to your black list others that have been equally or more critical of Whitman than I have.
If it is not obvious to you that that statement was to make a point and not a statement from Whitman, then it is not me that is having trouble here.
As for my statement of what my morals would be in that situation, that is in no way a statement of your morals. I was not in any way suggesting you don't have similar morals. That is a statement I would never attempt to make for you.
As you say, the bonus was likely in her contract. I consider it excessive, obscene given the fact that employees were to be layed off. It makes no difference that the layoffs came afterwards. No CEO would NOT have been aware they were coming.
And before you accuse me of being a Brown fan, I am not. This is a discussion forum for conservatives. Whitman is not conservative. If you want me thrown off of here, be sure you add to your black list others that have been equally or more critical of Whitman than I have.