The recently hired CEO Alan H. Fishman (of Washington Mutual, which just went under and was bought out by JP Morgan) has landed on his feet. He only worked at WaMu for 17 days and will receive roughly $20 million. Thinking on the bright side, just think how much he would have cost to fire if he ran a successful company.
http://jonathanturley.org/2008/09/26/i-quit-washington-mutual-ceo-fishman-gets-20-million-for-17-days-of-work-before-the-whole-company-was-sold/That's assuming he worked 8 hour days. The actual money amount is probably a bit more than that. That's not including his actual salary and expense account, etc. for that time. I wonder if he wasn't allowed to go the bathroom while he was on the job:
Workers on the bottling line have been upset since last fall, when the company began restricting them to four breaks during a 9.5-hour shift. Only one of the breaks can be unscheduled. Extra trips can result in reprimands. And workers with six violations can be fired.
Some of the 150 affected employees have resorted to wearing protective undergarments, say officials of the United Food and Commercial Workers union, which represents production workers at the Clermont, Ky., ...
(from 2002, since resolved)
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-120205569.html