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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Just for perspective here,

1000 * $15/hr = $15,000 / hr

$96,000,000 / $15,000  / hour = 6,400 hours

6,400 hours / 40 hours / week = 160 weeks

160 weeks / 52.17857 weeks / year = 3.0663929655412174 years

They could afford to keep those employees on for another 3 Years with that amount.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They could have paid every one of those employees nearly 6 figures instead. If the company is doing so badly that they feel they need to lay off a thousand people, they should not be handing out CEO bonuses, period.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pretty sure a good portion of that was union busting, but that's what we're all about now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

This would not shock me in the slightest

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I guess it’s a good thing I make my own coffee at home. Bonus! It doesn’t taste like burnt bean water!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's $96,000 per layed off worker

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is the same douche canoe that was the CEO of Chipotle and denied that the serving sizes were getting smaller and told people to just harass the worker making the food if they thought their serving size was to small.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Also the same guy trying to green wash plastic waste to be customer responsibility while commuting on a private jet from Southern California to Seattle.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Had to get the money from somewhere. Just like Trump. Fire a bunch of workers for the tax cut payments to billionaires. Like clockwork.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Starbucks gives the new CEO a $96 million bonus, then a month later, lays off 1,000+ ~~workers~~ Potential Luigis.

FTFY.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Cap the maximum compensation gap (including bonuses and stocks) between the highest paid and lowest paid person in a company at 1000:1. Any overpay goes into a UBI account that pays out equally to all.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Should be 30 :1 on whichever is lower average or median salary and contractors count if they perform core business functions/work on location.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's absolutely no way he's adding enough value compared to Joe MBA to justify that compensation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's what I'm trying to do understand as well. What's the explanation for these kinds of things? What's the actual sequence of events and how conditions that lead to these things? Why would the board approve of this kind of compensation?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

"It's a big club, and you ain't in it."

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