CEOs Call in Sick for Remainder of 2007, Earn as Much as Workers

[Ian_rd]

First of all, I totally lifted this analogy from Cryptogon and CNN, and it's a damn powerful one to make.

According to CNNMoney.com, the average big-company CEO in 2005 made 262 times the pay of the average worker. If we assume that there are 260 working days in a year (52 weeks x 5 days), then such a CEO could have gone into work yesterday, the first working day of the year, and then take the rest of the entire year off without pay and earn as much as the average American worker.

And according to this report by United for a Fair Economy who ran their own numbers for 2004, the ratio was more like 431 to 1.

What.


The.


Fuck.

[Cant_wait_for_2008]

1. They dont allow s%$t like this in Japan. Why do we put up with it?

Thats corporate america for you.

The fat-cats play and the little guys (and gals) pay !!

[Javaman]

2. Because here in corporate amerika we are told never to question

our overlords. +