Comments on: GMAC boss pockets $11.6 million

By: SteveC

SteveC — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:43:52 +0000

People like that didn’t get to the top by resting on their morals.

By: Cupid Stunt

Cupid Stunt — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:21:23 +0000

Severence of contract probably. You and I get a week or a months notice to quit the fat cats line their own pockets after writing their own contracts.

By: Frenchie

Frenchie — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:18:34 +0000

4.8 million in compensation? For what?

By: technofreak

technofreak — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:42:28 +0000

It IS a shame that those that actually work the hardest get shafted by these losers! Could be that the workers will rise up again in the not so distant future and fix this crap!
Serioulsy, something has to be done to correct this crap from happening…I like the idea of the shareholders having a bigger say in corp salaries!

By: Andrew M

Andrew M — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:20:12 +0000

Dlr1,
My thoughts exactlly.

I got no problem with it when their worth can be shown, but when his ship is about to sink, one would think the focus would shift slightly towards it.

By: Cupid Stunt

Cupid Stunt — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:05:55 +0000

Fat Cats taking the cream. Rather like the nob who knackered the RBS in the UK and take a £630K annual pension oh and was knighted for services to banking.
This world sucks if you honest. Pay to be corrupt somehow.

By: TuffGuy

TuffGuy — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:40:28 +0000

Such corporate greed will continue unabated because nobody can stop them because they and their boardroom cronies set their own wages. I heard a good suggestion the other day that governments could create a special tax rate for all mega high earners like these greedy corporate scumbags. But then I suppose they would then just go and give themselves another increase to compensate.
I guess we can only hope for success in the blockade of Pacific Brands (and boycotting of their products) to show them how we really feel about their actions.

By: Captain Mainwaring

Captain Mainwaring — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 07:48:31 +0000

In the US, it would seem that the wrong people are in jail.

By: Spitfire

Spitfire — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 07:25:36 +0000

You are right about the gits running the company into the ground Technofreak.

Do I feel sorry for the workers in the manufacturing plants? Of course I do.

By: davie

davie — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:54:54 +0000

There is no doubt that this is a very sensitive issue at the moment, which the worlds media are reporting with all the usual hysteria and lack of measure.

In spite of this, its hard not to wonder about the very core beliefs and drivers of these captains of industry. It appears that there is simply no moral issue for them in driving a company to its knees, accepting taxpayer relief and paying themselves obscene amounts with other peoples tax dollars.

Business is business but these people border on pyschopathic in their apparent ignorance, greed and ability to insult their fellow human being.

I’m no socialist but I would imagine that this is the sort of massive social inequality which has brought about revolutions in the past…