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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 09:14 PM Original message |
Bonuses OK'd for Borders |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 09:20 PM Response to Original message |
1. These fucking criminals shouldn't get a penny. |
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blueclown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 09:28 PM Response to Original message |
2. How do you get a "bonus" if you've driven your company into bankruptcy? |
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wordpix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 09:52 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. because "the bonuses are necessary to retain executives in key posts." |
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BR_Parkway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 06:01 AM Response to Reply #7 |
20. Yeah, there's such a shortage of people looking for a job right now |
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Prof Lester (158 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 09:05 AM Response to Reply #20 |
25. Mills saw this comin' a long time ago. |
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Gidney N Cloyd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 09:57 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Hell, how do you get a JOB OFFER afterwards? Borders really has to pay bonuses to prevent poaching? |
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wordpix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 10:18 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. up is down and right is left |
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Buzz Clik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 09:28 PM Response to Original message |
3. Bastards closed our local Borders. The only non-university bookstore in town. |
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Prof Lester (158 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 09:10 AM Response to Reply #3 |
26. Not only that.. |
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ChromeFoundry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 09:29 PM Response to Original message |
4. Give a bonus to the ones that cause the bankruptcy? |
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iwishiwas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 09:37 PM Response to Original message |
5. Folks struggle to buy groceries, gas, pay heat-and then things |
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wordpix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 09:48 PM Response to Original message |
6. and that's the way it is in corporatist Amerika, I'm not surprised...still, |
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arikara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 10:16 PM Response to Original message |
9. If they ran the company into bankrupcy why do they |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
11. My company went through two bankruptcies, management |
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Populist_Prole (774 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 11:47 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. Same exact thing happened where I work. Twice as well. |
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catrose (591 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 10:24 PM Response to Original message |
12. EXCUSE ME? |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 10:34 PM Response to Original message |
13. why should they want to keep them? |
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neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 10:56 PM Response to Original message |
14. Even when they fail, they succeed. |
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toska (180 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 11:12 PM Response to Original message |
15. Torn on this one |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 12:00 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. I am single minded in my disgust. They are not paying employees wages |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 06:12 AM Response to Reply #15 |
22. Borders could have succeeded if it had responded to social change |
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DeSwiss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 01:35 AM Response to Original message |
18. K&R |
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Akoto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 01:50 AM Response to Original message |
19. It's a shame. My local Borders is among those closing ... |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 06:09 AM Response to Original message |
21. Borders is paying that kind of money to retain executives that ran its |
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eomer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 07:25 AM Response to Original message |
23. Hah, I started a personal boycott of Borders due to the RW crap they always put on the front table. |
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rasputin1952 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 07:48 AM Response to Original message |
24. So, bankrupt a company, and get a bonus for doing so...Capitalism |
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fasttense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 09:16 AM Response to Reply #24 |
27. I think capitalism is a predator form of economics but this is NOT capitalism. |
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Joe Bacon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 09:44 AM Response to Original message |
28. What could be more American? |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 04:52 PM Response to Original message |
29. Bonus-ing their way out of business. Idiots. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 04:57 PM Response to Original message |
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Skink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-24-11 10:36 PM Response to Original message |
31. Actually this is what was supposed to happen. |
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