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From: xrtnt@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Nigel Tzeng)
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Subject: Re: Commodore Top Management
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Date: 13 Apr 90 12:47:30 GMT
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In article <7648@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Systems Staff) writes...
^In article <16638@estelle.udel.EDU> new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
^>In article <28813@cup.portal.com> Classic_-_Concepts@cup.portal.com writes:
^>>
^>>    > For the $2 million Mr. Ali grabbed for himself, those TEN people who
^>>    > were laid off could be kept on for another year ...
^>> 
^>>Boy, if those employees were getting $200,000/year, maybe I should apply for
^>>their jobs (tongue-in-cheek guys, no flames ...)           LadyHawke
^>
^>I would be suprised if at least half of that money wasn't for "overhead"
^>like office space rent, furniture, insurance, etc.      But I'll still
^>take $100K/yr.   :-)                -- Darren
^ 
^flame_on()
^{
^	Uh, people, before you pass judgement on what people
^	make I suggest that you consider there is more to life
^	than hanging out in the dorms and eating frozen macaroni
^	and cheese dinners.  If you lived in NYC, you might find
^	$100K hard to live by, believe it or not (apts go $1500 and
^	up in the city).  Or perhaps that $100K doesn't include 
^	benefits, eg pension, health insurance, etc - those are 
^	benefits expensive AND necessary, believe it or not.  Or maybe
^	they just compensate their executives well because they
^	are laying them off constantly.  And of course maybe, just maybe, 
^	these people have paid their hacker peanut butter cycles (just 
^	like we are now) and they are at the stage of their lives where
^	a career full of hard work is paying off.  So let's just
^	call this entire salary thing and whether people are worth
^	what they are paid, etc a dead issue and move on.  You
^	obviously are rather naive about how salaries are determined.
^ 
^					Rick Spanbauer
^					State U of NY/Stony Brook
^}

I think the original post was complaining about bonuses for the top management. 
It does not seem to me that they have done anything significant to warrant 2-4
million dollar bonuses.  In fact it looks remarkably similar to the recent
gouging by top management of junk bond place that went belly up.  IF Commodore
is suffering right now it would have been better for the company and users of
the amiga if they had held off until the 3000 came out and stock value went
back up.  At least then they could say: Look...we've been doing a great job!
Sales are up...blah blah blah.

Also no one in the two later posts said anything about anyone earning too much. 
Read the things before you call anyone "obviously naive".

Nigel Tzeng

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