rbreich ,
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Boeing shareholders approved a $33M pay package for CEO Dave Calhoun, despite overseeing huge losses and safety problems.

It's the biggest package ever given to a Boeing CEO.

Calhoun is resigning by year's end. Guess what he gets then?

A $45 million golden parachute.

Unreal.

decapitae ,
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@rbreich While the people bearing the brunt of the lack of solid leadership, bear the shame of lack of quality and safety due to higher up decisions, have to continue to work for retirement? Has the mafia been exposed as having gone ivy league and two party to grift and murder for power and money and noone has backbone to stand up for ethics or rights or equality or anything constitutionally sound anymore?

Welcome to politics and business in the U S of friggin' A.

Fun.

docRekd ,

@rbreich turns out that golden parachutes are a bad idea even by capitalism's standards: after all you are not incenvizzed to grow your company but to squeeze it as much as possible before being inevitably fired

Npars01 ,
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@rbreich

Buying someone's silence as they scapegoat him is common practice.

The folks that turned a blind eye to a catastrophic financial crash, scapegoated a few executives & traders and bought their silence with handsome amounts of "Bye-Bye" money.

It's a practice that should be made illegal because it's a practice that hides fraud & other criminal conduct.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-golden-parachute-ceo-severance-and-the-housing-crisis-by-the-numbers/

https://hbr.org/2016/10/a-short-history-of-golden-parachutes

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/opinion/19iht-edbankers.1.16308239.html

https://www.brut.media/us/economy/the-most-controversial-golden-parachutes-d6a231fa-94a3-44a3-8756-6ea6bb6067e8

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/11/inside-the-fall-of-wework

PeachMcD ,
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@rbreich
Because...

/s

🙄🤦🏻‍♀️

Sassinake ,
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@rbreich

unfair to workers and travellers alike.

literally putting people's lives in danger and treating it like the 'cost of business'.

mxhdroom ,
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@rbreich Think of how many good aviation QA people and programs 78 million could support.

shareholders should be ashamed.

JamesK ,
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@rbreich USA! USA! USA!
Dammit

Lokjo ,
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@rbreich

And every time people buy a ticket using Boeing they agree and financially support this company to continue these things.

Stop using services form corrupt corporations will stop their mis-behaviour.

It's that simple.

fshinneman ,
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@rbreich @JamesGleick No one should think “shareholders” are people. They are the major financial corporations of the world. 33 shareholders control 75%. Supporting the remuneration of their rarefied class of officer is no surprise.

LightFIAR ,
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@rbreich And the ability to murder whistleblowers at a whim?

DeborahForPlus ,
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@rbreich So the most certain way of getting a whole lot of money, and not having to do any actual work for it -- is to be a CEO who has screwed up royally, costing lives, money, and reputation!!

davidcorbett ,
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@rbreich so ya all puppet him and all over 30 million to give it to the poor since they where overcharged under paid poverty wage cannibalized enslaved abused and he has more then his turn and share anyway

cindyyusa ,
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DonQuixokie ,
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@rbreich Who's got a needle?

irlusa_gera ,
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@rbreich that’s how capitalism works.

davidgrieve ,
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@rbreich
Please confirm, does he only get the golden parachute if he jumps out of a plane holding a real golden parachute?

MorpheusB ,
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@rbreich Obscene amount of money.

ItsThatDeafGuy ,
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@rbreich and few 'mysterious' deaths in the process too..... 👀

BlippyTheWonderSlug ,
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eleog ,

@rbreich Seems like it's more the Boeing shareholders than the passengers who are being taken for a ride.

jadebees ,
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@rbreich Don't blame the shareholders. Very few individuals vote their shares, and most institutions rubber stamp the board's proposals. Blame the Boeing board, which is mostly CEOs, for concocting the Boeing CEO's compensation package.

maykl ,
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@rbreich costs a lot to keep its secrets from becoming public

HeyItsRosie ,
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@rbreich
Another reason not to fly

Huntn00 ,
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@rbreich This is typical Capitalism Bull Shit. Huge rewards for a job poorly done. But they take care of their own. We can’t afford billionaires or multi-millionaires. 😡

priryo ,
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@rbreich
If I had anything to do with their planes I'd want a parachute too.
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