Hmm...
CEO gets $4 million severence (Bob Allen at AT&T) for upsetting
the Board of Directors.
Joe FTE gets 4 months severence and $205/week for 12 weeks
(friend at Amex) for upsetting his manager.
Who's the idiot again? :)
George
Digital Wokan wrote:
>
> I wouldn't hold my breath. I think businesses will continue to do
> really stupid things for as long as CEO's get stupidly large bonuses
> when they get kicked out for their overly stupid decisions. Companies
> shouldn't have to pay management to go the hell away and not darken
> their door. Let them collect the $205/week unemployment like the rest
> of us. (Adjust for whatever state the idiot lives in.)
>
> John Kloian wrote:
> >
> > I firmly believe in deregulation, but the boom in the CLEC market and
> > their practices seem to have been a death sentence. Its really funny,
> > take a voice T-1 for example. Qwest is forced by the federal tariffs and
> > the Arizona Corporation commission to sell it at a certain price, however
> > MCI and AT&T or any other CLEC can sell it for upto 35% less than the
> > ILEC and they do all the time. Now granted the CLEC losses money on every
> > deal, but they figured they get vertical sales from the customer. this
> > has been going on for some time. Plus the CLEC's by billions of dollar of
> > service from each other. this looks good on the books, but the minute one
> > decalres bankruptcy everyone suffers as a result. this is what we are
> > seeing happen right now. When Global Crossing declared bankruptcy they
> > force XO to right off 7.35 billion on their books, obviously that hurt and
> > is one of the reasons XO is about to file chapter 11.
> >
> > In the end this shakedown will probably be a good thing, but we'll more
> > than likely be stuck with one ILEC until some new players pop up.
> > Hopefully the business practices will change slightly.
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